On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:29:41 -0500, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:59:55 -0500, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote: >> >>> run ps auxw grep pine and ps auxw | grep perl >> [b...@hbsk2 ~]$ ps auxw|grep pine >> btth 11116 0.0 0.2 15600 6640 pts/5 S+ 15:22 0:01 alpine >> btth 12020 0.0 0.0 4212 704 pts/1 S+ 16:10 0:00 grep >> pine [b...@hbsk2 ~]$ > > If alpine is like pine it looks for a lock on your mail spool. Does the > same thing happen if you close alpine before invoking the perl script?
[b...@hbsk2 ~]$ alpine_helper.pl mailto:a...@b & [1] 12573 [b...@hbsk2 ~]$ ls -l /home/btth/bin total 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 btth btth 143 2009-03-06 13:26 alpine_helper.pl [1]+ Done alpine_helper.pl mailto:a...@b [b...@hbsk2 ~]$ That first one did in fact launch Alpine in a Terminal. As for locks -- I do remember that Pine used to do that. I don't think I've seen Alpine do it. If I KVM to another machine, with Alpine running on this one, I can still invoke it on the other. Also, my access provider gives me a webmail address, which I use for looking at pix and for blacklisting spam -- and otherwise at little as possible. But I've noticed that, if one of the two (alpine or webmail) is already open, I can still open the other. So I suspect that the change from Pine was deliberate. > >> and >> [b...@hbsk2 ~]$ ps auxw|grep perl >> btth 12039 0.0 0.0 4212 704 pts/1 S+ 16:12 0:00 grep >> perl [b...@hbsk2 ~]$ > > This is OK [...] >> I hope you see more than I do above (which is quite possible) -- >> or have more ideas .... > > Not yet ;-) You should be able to run as many instances of terminal or > perl as you wish so that narrows it down to alpine and a lock file. Have > you straced the script? I don't think I've ever used strace -- or learned any more than how to spell it, alas! > Why don't you use pan's mailer? I'm one of these deep-dyed fanatics who starts from the position that any computer not able to run Pine/Alpine is a disgrace to sit down at, and has to have it installed ASAP, or be repaired with a sledgehammer. After twelve or fifteen years of it, my fingers know the commands; so I can keep my conscious thought on what I'm reading or saying. So I haven't the faintest notion what mailer Pan would invoke if I didn't tell it -- but I'll bet a dollar to doughnuts that I'd detest it, even if it weren't webmail, and more if it were. > Do you boot to level 5 (X) or level 3 and startx? I'm curious if an > error might be showing in the tty you startx from. I boot straight into level 5; even my login is there. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
