[PLUG] Pine

[Joe Pruett]

the option you want to change is the rsh-open-timeout.  set it to 0 and it 
should stop trying rsh.

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Michael Robinson wrote:
>
>> How do I disable pine's attempts to access TCP port 514 which according
>> to /etc/services is the shell service?  It doesn't need to access port
>> 514 for imap access but it still tries.
>>
>> shell           514/tcp    cmd          #like exec, but automatic
>> syslog          514/udp
>>
>> Jan 24 21:36:32 barn kernel: OUTPUT_t:IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.4.34
>> DST=192.168.4.1 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=55015 DF PROTO=TCP
>> SPT=1020 DPT=514 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
>>
>> Every time I try to run pine I get the above message in my logs that
>> an attempt has been made to access the shell service remotely on tcp
>> port 514.
>
> Can you post some of your .pinerc settings:
>
>   smtp-server
>   inbox-path
>   incoming-folders
>   folder-collections
>   news-collections
>
> My hunch is that your configuration wants direct file access to your
> inbox and/or folders (as opposed to, say, IMAP access to them) and
> pine is trying to launch a remote session to allow it.
>
> Also -- are you still running Pine or have you switched to Alpine? The
> latter is the currently supported version -- and it has UTF-8 support
> so you can read your spam in the original Russian! :-)
>
>