Maurice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:23:15 +0100:
> Does (new) Pan warn if the cache is approaching full? No. It's designed with a tiny cache that it uses as a ring-buffer, FIFO style. However, I operate three separate instances (set and export the PAN_HOME environmental variable before starting pan, and it'll use what it points to instead of ~/.pan2, I use this to run separate binary, test and text instances), two of which I have set to several gigs of cache, and it uses it just fine -- except of course being slightly slower to startup, but nowhere near what old-pan was. >> Perhaps with said clarification, new-pan will fill your needs after >> all. > > It would seem so, and I will give it another try. > > But first I need to check on its handling of multiple servers. Does > new > Pan still fetch automatically from all servers defined (for subscribed > newsgroups)? > That would be a problem for me, as although I routinely fetch from 3 > servers, I have two or three others in reserve for temporary use on the > occasions when a regular server is down, and I would not want fetches > from the reserve servers to be done routinely... It does still fetch from all of them automatically (tho it won't check backup servers until it has failed to find a message on the main servers), and AFAIK there's no in-pan way of disabling a server, only to set multiple levels of backup. However, you could use a stub-script to start it like I do, only instead of or in addition to setting the instance, you could switch servers.xml between a config with only your main servers, and one with all of them. -- 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
