I'm sorry to say, the explanations are over my head. But I thank you both for replying, not your fault my abilities are below par.
--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Two instances of PAN > To: pan-users@nongnu.org > Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 6:45 PM > David Shochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 08 > Nov 2008 > 12:08:33 -0500: > > > Rick Barry wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> I'd like to run 2 separate instances of PAN > 0.132 in Ubuntu 8.04.1. Is > >> this possible? If so, how would I achieve this? > >> > >> > > I think all you'd have to do would be to set the > environment variable > > PAN_HOME to something other than $HOME/.pan2 for the > second instance. > > For example, you could set it to $HOME/.pan2.2 and the > 2nd instance > > would use ~/.pan2.2 for its database. To make it more > convenient, you > > could write a 2-line script that sets PAN_HOME to the > non-standard value > > and then runs pan. You would then just use that script > to launch the 2nd > > instance. You could have 2 panel launchers, with one > just launching pan > > normally and the other running the script. > > Well posted. =:^) That's actually the way I have pan > setup here, with of > course some individual variance in detail. I have three > instances, > pan.bin (binaries), pan.text and pan.test (for browsing > around, since pan > keeps some info about groups you've been to even after > you delete them, > this way I can easily blow that away without blowing away > my regular > subscribed groups). > > Each instance is set to a subdir of ~/pan/ (I don't > like hidden dirs, so > not .pan), ~/pan/text, ~/pan/bin, etc. For config files > that are the > same across all three instances, I have a ~/pan/globals as > well, with > symlinks from the individual instance dirs as appropriate. > I thus have a > common scorefile and accels.txt keyboard accel mapping. > > My starter scripts are pan.bin, pan.text, etc, with a kmenu > entry for > each, and a khotkeys entry for those, so I can invoke my > main instances > with just a couple keystrokes. (I run pan.test seldom > enough that it's > better run from the launcher dialog.) > > -- > 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 _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
