Of course Jack is exactly correct, and this explains the expanding range of problems I experienced yesterday, beyond those with Alpine.
Now, I do remember reading this page when I first joined the co-op. <http://wiki.hcoop.net/MemberManual/GettingStarted> At that time AFS and Kerberos tickets meant nothing to me. I remained in blissful ignorance until yesterday, never having been logged into my account for 10 hours before. In gratitude, David. On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, jackhill wrote: > On Sun, 1 Feb 2015, dbrownst wrote: > >> Now when I try to restart the program, I receive the error: >> "The "/afs/hcoop.net/user/d/db/dbrownst/mail" subdirectory already >> exists, but it is not writable by Alpine so Alpine cannot run. >> Please correct the permissions and restart Alpine." > > What is the output of "tokens" and "fs listacl ~/mail" ? > > I suspect that you have lost AFS tokens for some reason (maybe they > expired?). To new one, run kinit (to ensure you have kerberos tickets) and > then aklog. > > If you plan to stay logged in for an extended period of time, I recommend > using some method of keeping valid tokens. I run this script, > /afs/hcoop.net/user/j/ja/jackhill/arch/share/bin/cont-renew-notify in the > background (although there is currently a bug so it doesn't actually > notify). > > Best, > Jack > _______________________________________________ HCoop-Help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-help
