Duncan wrote: > Kurt Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 26 Sep > 2008 07:44:05 -0400: > >> I use 0.133 on both a Windows box and my Linux box. I currently >> subscribe to three server feeds. Two are private servers, the third is >> Motzarella. I have noted that as I switch between subscribed newsgroups >> on the different servers that the connexion to Motz gets dropped. The >> list of subscribe groups is alphbetical, so by the time I get to >> news.software.readers Pan indicates that No Tasks remain and no new >> headers are downloaded. I can exit the program and re-establish a >> connexion to Motz, and Pan will then fetch new headers. Any >> sugggestions? > > Pan normally does a keep-alive, sending what is effectively an "I'm still > here, don't disconnect" request to each server every few minutes. > However, some servers still timeout after some server-configured time > period if that's all they are getting. >
That's what I sort of thought. I can continue to jack-in and refresh. This just a minor annoyance. And thank you for the quick response. > Here, my ISP's (outsourced) news service still disconnects after a > certain time -- and the pan log will show an error and apparently quit > sending the keep-alives after that. However, the server /should/ > reconnect fairly quickly if you actually start doing something on it. I > know it /normally/ does here, tho there's an occasional temporary hiccup > and I'll say compose a reply, have it timeout in the mean time, and won't > get an immediate send when I try to send. However, if I let it sit, > still trying to send, a couple minutes, it'll almost always eventually > connect and the message will be sent. If it doesn't, there's worse > server-side issues. > > You might try going offline (in pan) temporarily, hitting the refresh > button so it queues the tasks, then going online. > > Other than that I don't know what to say, except to note that you can > check what the OS thinks exist in terms of connections using the netstat > command. It should work on both MS and Linux, tho parameters may vary. > If the OS still sees a normal connection, that could be a problem. If it > sees one that's still stuck in time-wait, that's a different problem (the > connection got half-closed but the last bit of the close handshake > sequence disappeared somewhere). I'll see what netstat tells me about keeping connexions alive a bit later. > >> One other quick question: is there a way of stripping out the added >> carriage returns above the sig delimiter? They add extra space to a post >> or follow up that have to be manually deleted. > > I don't find it too bad here, probably because it's just habit to delete > the extras, now, but you're right, there's a few extra CRs in there and > it is (mildly) annoying. I'm not sure why there's so many, except that I > think Charles may be putting them there to help to encourage proper quote/ > reply form, instead of top posting. If the cursor and an obvious blank > is at the bottom... Heh. I'm in the habit of manually stripping the extras out now. Just looking to see if there was a workaround or fix. It is a very minor annoyance. > > The other possibility is that it's to do with the interplay between the > profile and the sig handling. If you have several posting profiles (with > different sigs) and try switching them, you should notice that if you've > deleted the extra lines, they come back when you switch profiles. Hmm, I'll see what I have in the way of sig.txt files and check that aspect out too. > > You could play around with the various sig type options. It has been > awhile since I tried that and I only tried the two text options (FWIW I > use text file, now), but that might change the number of blank lines > inserted. > > If I was a C++ coder, that'd have probably "itched" long enough by now to > cause me to scratch it, looking into creating a patch to fix it, but I'm > not and obviously it's not itching bad enough for those that are to have > bugged and filed a patch for it yet, so... > Again, thanks for the response. I'll test a few things and let you know the outcome. With warm regards, Kurt Schilling/Steinhauser _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
