All rightey then. Don't check the number of connections by checking server properties. Be more empirically-minded: check by starting Pan and checking the actual number of connections reported.
Mystery solved. Live, learn, make new mistake. Thanks for the patient and helpful replies. On Saturday August 16 2008 20:39:12 walt wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:19:33 -0400, Timothy J. Hamilton wrote: > > ... > > After exiting Pan, I changed the connection limit from 4 to 20 in > > servers.xml. I also tried setting a limit of 10 connections. > > > > After exiting Pan, when I check the server connections in "edit news > > servers", Pan shows a maximum of 4 connections. Further, when I reopen > > servers.xml after closing Pan, the connection limit in servers.xml is > > reset to 4... > > The only thing that will alter the number in servers.xml is the Edit > News Servers dialog box, and then *only* if you do something to cause > the edit dialog to save a new copy of the file -- like clicking OK. > If you click Cancel instead, your servers.xml will be unchanged. > Note that the edit dialog changes your 20 to 4, but it will only > make that change if you click OK, which causes the file to be > rewritten. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pan-users mailing list > Pan-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
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