2008/11/27 Michel Doodeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 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. > copying over the .pan2 contents into the new location should be enough. for example if you use it with the same user just doing a cp -a ~/.pan2/* ~/.pan300/ would do a copy of the old .pan2 working dir in the new location. under the groups directory you should have a list of groups, which are the actual subscribed groups and that contain the articles fetched in them. at every restart pan should be able to read the contents of these files and understand that they're subscribed groups. from your description it seems that he recognizes that he has articles fetched in these groups (the bold usually means that there are new articles inside the groups) but doesn't recognize that you've subscribed them. try lookin in the left pane (the group one) as you should be able to filter by macro categories (subscribed and other groups). after subscribing one group usually pan moves the group from the other groups grouping to the subscribed one.
but i've also noticed a strange thing: for some reason when i try to copy the .pan2 folder of another user this ends to be broken. pan isn't able to read the data stored in the folder from the other user. and the contents of the files inside pan2 directory has exactly the same format and intestation. on this issue, if this would apply to you, i call out duncan as i think he might be able to figure out something of his bigger knowledge about this project. -- dott. ing. beso _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
