According to the pine documentation, there are both a pine.conf and a pine.conf.fixed somewhere on the system, which are used to set global pine configuration options. According to this same documentation, running "pine -conf" will give the output of this file. My system shows the following: robotics local # emerge -s pine Searching... [ Results for search key : pine ] [ Applications found : 3 ] * net-mail/pine Latest version available: 4.50-r4 Latest version installed: 4.50-r4 Size of downloaded files: 3,684 kB Homepage: http://www.washington.edu/pine/ Description: A tool for reading, sending and managing electronic messages. <rest of output snipped> pine -conf # /usr/local/lib/pine.conf -- system wide pine configuration # # Values here affect all pine users unless they've overidden the values # in their .pinerc files. A copy of this file with current comments may # be obtained by running "pine -conf". It will be printed to standard output. # # For a variable to be unset its value must be null/blank. This is not the # same as the value of "empty string", which can be used to effectively # "unset" a variable that has a default or previously assigned value. # To set a variable to the empty string its value should be "". <rest of output snipped> navigating to /usr/local/lib, I found nothing. I created pine.conf, and the system now shows: robotics lib # cat /usr/local/lib/pine.conf inbox-path={localhost/ssl/novalidate-cert/USER=${USER}}INBOX folder-collections={localhost/ssl/novalidate-cert}INBOX.[] which are the options I want to set. pine -conf continues to output the same thing it did beforehand. to make sure that pine.conf isn't somewhere else: robotics lib # updatedb && locate pine.conf /usr/local/lib/pine.conf a straight "locate pine" yields nothing that's not a ~/.pinerc, or in /usr/portage, /var/db/pkg,/var/cache/ /usr/share/doc, or /usr/share/man. Offhand, a workaround would be to add those two lines to /etc/skel/.pinerc, but that's a kludge. Thanks! ~Mac~
I have updated pine to pine-4.53-r3 which moves the pine config files to /etc. Here is some clarification on "pine -conf" -conf Configuration: Prints a sample system configuration file to the screen or standard output. To generate an initial system configuration file, execute pine -conf > /usr/local/lib/pine.conf To generate a system configuration file using settings from an old system configuration file, execute pine -P old-pine.conf -conf > /usr/local/lib/pine.conf A system configuration file is not required. you only use -conf to generate the initial config or migrate on old config file.
