Bruce Bowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:05:09 +0000:
> Yep, editting newsrc-xxx seems to be, after a little playing around, the > only way to do it. That falls apart if pan ever decides to update the > group list (or far more likely :-), I forget that I editted the file and > tell pan to update the group list. Thanks for confirming that editing newsrc-xxx is the way. I suspected it was, but wasn't sure, so didn't claim it. Meanwhile, when I'm afraid something automated will undo an edit I made to something, I make a backup, with a name I'm fairly confident won't be mistaken for something else and thus fairly confident won't be removed either by me or by some automated process. For years, I've used my initials as an extension (thus copying it to newsrc-xxx.jed, since my initials are jed), as it's convenient, not an already commonly used extension, and instantly identifiable as my personal backup copy. Lately, I've taken to using the date, in SI standard little-endian order (so newsrc-xxx.20070325, if I were doing it today, or perhaps newsrc- xxx.2007.03.25, or newsrc-xxx.20070325.jed, if I wanted to standardize on a single identifiable extension), especially for backups of configs that are reasonably likely to change over time, so I at least know how far back I'm going, if I end up falling back to it. Creating so-denoted in- place copies, combined with periodic backup snapshotting of various partitions on my system in case I fat-finger or have a partition-level hardware failure (on RAID-6, thus covering disk-level failure), keeps me relatively secure against such otherwise minor or major disasters. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
