> Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:50:52 +0000 > From: Beso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Pan-users] setting PAN_HOME doesnt work > To: pan-users@nongnu.org > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 2008/11/26 Michel Doodeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hello, > > > > As can be read in the subject: I have a question about the Pan settings > > variable because it fails me. I just cannot get it to work. If I set it to > > whatever directory, e.g. with 'export PAN_HOME=/home/ice/.pan300' (and the > > directory is present indeed), Pan still wants me to add servers from > > scratch after launching. I echoed the environment to verify its value. > > > > So in other words, it does not read the alternative path in which settings > > can be found. Am I overlooking something? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > how do you start pan? you should start it from the shell in which you > set the export or set the pan home as env variable. > else it will apply only to the shell session in which you lauched the export.
Ah yes. That does the trick indeed. What I did was exporting the path, then starting it from menu. The original ~/.pan2 was differently renamed. So logically Pan prompted me to add servers. This brings me to another point: If Pan has been configured and its settings are stored to ~/.pan2 and you then export PAN_HOME to e.g. ~/.pan300 and start pan, all groups disappeared. Both 'subscribed' and 'other'. If I refresh the grouplist I can see the newsgroups I once was subscribed to, displayed again. In bold, under the 'other groups'. When I exit, again all groups disappeared from the list. I assume this shouldnt happen. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
