Christopher Boorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:54:10 -0500:
> Where would I find PAN_HOME? What text file would this be part of? PAN_HOME is set as an environmental variable. Thus, in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bashprofile (or both) or the like on Linux, or in a starter script if you prefer, that sets the variable before launching the pan binary. If you have a user bin dir in your path, for instance, commonly ~/bin, you could put a script there (call it pan.sh, maybe) with the following: #!/bin/bash export PAN_HOME="/path/to/pan/data/dir" /usr/bin/pan & disown Of course that's assuming your pan binary is located in /usr/bin/pan. The trailing " &" tells bash to execute the command in the background and continue executing the script, while disown lets go of the forked pan process so when the script ends, pan won't die as well. Then change script permissions, setting it executable. Then you could start pan with pan.sh instead of simply pan (you can update the pan launchers appropriately, or ~/bin/pan.sh if ~/bin/ isn't in your command search path, and the script will set and export PAN_HOME before starting pan, so pan knows where to look for its data. There's a way to set environmental variables on MS platforms too, but it's been so long since I ran them that I'm not going to attempt describing what might have changed a bit since then in any case. But the idea would be to put pan's data dir on either a VFAT filesystem, or if you have read/write NTFS mounting enabled on your Linux side, on NTFS, and point the Linux data dir at it (by setting PAN_HOME) so they both use the same dir. Another way to do the same thing which might be less complicated if you don't want to bother with environmental variables, would be to point the default Linux location (~/.pan2) at the MS side location, using a symlink. I used a symlink for years with old-pan, before the PAN_HOME environmental variable solution was available, to point the data dir at a dedicated pan partition. It worked fine. -- 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
