Christopher Boorman wrote:
David Shochat wrote:
Christopher Boorman wrote:
I've got my thunderbird mail folder and my firefox bookmarks stored
on a
separate drive so that whatever I do in one application when I'm in
Mandriva will be reflected in XP and vice versa. I'm looking for a
way to
do this in Pan. Has anyone else had success with this?
I haven't actually done this, but it sounds like another job for
PAN_HOME. On the Linux side, there are numerous ways to start pan
conveniently with PAN_HOME set to a particular value. E.g. on my
system, if I wanted my pan database on my vfat format USB drive, I
could set PAN_HOME to /media/SEA_DISC/pan. Actually, I just tried at
a bash shell prompt:
PAN_HOME=/media/SEA_DISC/pan pan
and it worked like a charm. I provided a news server, visited a
group, read one article and exited. A pan directory had been created
on the drive and it contained the usual things. Now I'm sure that you
can do something similar in Windows (maybe you would set PAN_HOME to
something like E:\pan). Now the only question is whether Windows pan
will tolerate the Unix text file format. And when you exit from
Windows pan, maybe it will write DOS/Windows format and the question
will be whether the Linux version can handle that. Only way to find
out is to try. I don't do Windows at home, so I cannot do the full test.
-- David
Where would I find PAN_HOME? What text file would this be part of?
My response deals with the Linux side; you'll have to get a Windows
person to tell you how to do the equivalent thing on the Windows side.
You could create a script, called for example, shared_pan, using a text
editor. In this file, you could place the following 3 lines (I'm
assuming my example here; you'd have to change it to suit the shared
storage device that you actually have):
#!/bin/bash
export PAN_HOME=/media/SEA_DISC/pan
pan
Now you need to make sure your script file is executable using the shell
command:
chmod 755 shared_pan
Now suppose you have placed this file in a directory named bin in your
home directory. For me, that would mean it would be in /home/david/bin.
Then this command would launch pan with the environment variable setting:
/home/david/bin/shared_pan
You could type that at a shell prompt, or put it as the command in a
panel launcher, allowing you to launch pan, with its database on your
shared drive, with a single click of the launcher. If you don't know how
to create a panel launcher, tell us what desktop you're running (e.g.
GNOME or KDE) and someone here will be able to tell you how.
-- David
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