Re: [cobalt-users] Pine.conf file location?

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, _ cbtrussell _ wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to modify pine so i can read my mail remotely without the 
> messages being extracted from the spool file to the mbox. (long story short, 
> it allows me to access the messages normally with my POP client when I get 
> home...)
> 
> I can do this on a per user basis by editing the .pinerc in the user's 
> directory, but it would be much more efficient to do it on a system level by 
> editing pine.conf
> 
> 1) Where is pine.conf or pine.conf.fixed? I have looked everywhere, and it's 
> definitely not in /etc or /usr/local/lib
> 
> 2) in the future, how can I find a file anywhere in the file system? i found 
> the binary with "which", but "locate" for pine.conf gave no joy.

You can't find it because it's not there ;) You need to create it if you
want to change systemwide defaults, pine uses internal defaultsthat are
generally reasonable, so they usually aren't changed.

There are actually 2 config files, pine.conf for settings suers can change
via their local pinerc files, and pine.conf.fixed which sets options that
users aren't allowed to change (eg from: can be forced here)

Both files should live in /usr/local/lib/

pine -conf  will cause pine to dump out it's current config after reading
in all it's rc files, this is a handy way to create a master config file,
but you need to be carefull what you keep and what you don't...

ps: the 'find' command will search for anything anywhere , in real time,
but of course the price is it's slow, and complicated However it's a
good idea to learn how it works :)

pps: don't forget global config's are gonna affect users like root and
admin also...

gsh