Context: I use alpine-2.20 as my MUA. This version does not copy the subject line when a message is forwarded (but does when a reply is prepared). Since alpine development was dropped by the UDub about a decade ago I was not able to find a working mail list.
End of last week alpine-related messages suddenly appeared in my inbox. Accepting that somehow either the list revived or my long-lost subscription was resuscitated, I posted a message about the lack of subject line display with forwarded messages. The developer who took over development of alpine responded. A few message exchanges later he identified the bug and fixed it in the development branch of the application's git repository. I cloned the repository checked out the master source, configured, and built it. Then I tried to replicate the process using the Slackware build script since alpine's part of the core distribution. Suffice it to write that it did not work well. After upgrading alpine from the 2.20 version to the 2.21.99 version it would not load. Re-installing the distribution release allowed alpine to load, but read-only. A message from the system told me that another process had prior ownership of alpine so my copy was constrained. Looking for that other process using lsof and ps found nothing. Finally, in desperation, I shut down the system and rebooted. Alpine once again works as it should. My question, strictly for increasing my knowledge, is what might make an executable in /usr/bin/ read-only when the usual tools to find who owns another copy show nothing? TIA, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
