Joe Zeff posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:59:35 -0700 as excerpted: > On 06/22/2010 05:31 PM, Duncan wrote: >> Well, on *nix pan's data is in ~/.pan2/ by default. (~ refers to the >> user's homedir.) > > I'm going to be away from home for about three weeks, but don't want to > get that far behind on LuseNet. I take it that if I transfer ~/.pan2 to > my laptop, I'll have everything I need? (And back again, when I get > home, of course.)
You should, yes. The config is there. The message cache is there. And all the group subscription and header threading and tracking is there. That's about it. =:^) Well, unless you've set the PAN_HOME environmental var to point pan somewhere other than ~/.pan2... or symlinked the cache into its own partition, or edited the paths to put some stuff elsewhere... all of which I do (well, AFAIK, the only paths I edited are in servers.xml, to rename the newsrc files to something less generic -- like newsrc.gmane for our favorite list2news host! =:^) Once you're setup on both, simply syncing the newsrc file may be all you need to do, particularly if you switch between them frequently, as that tracks subscriptions, read articles, etc. But for a period of weeks, you'll probably want to sync the headers back, too, and possibly the cached articles, depending on your operating style. But the article cache is only IIRC 10 MB by default, anyway, so it's not going to cache /that/ much, particularly if you do binaries. (I have my binary instance set to 12 gigs, tho in all honesty I've not used it in long enough, pan's binary handling could have broken and I'd have not noticed. But I keep it around. And my text instance is set to 5 gigs, tho I'm only using a fraction of that with several years of posts -- I have the servers on it set to no-expire, so the only way I lose stuff is if, for instance, the still not entirely stable Radeon r600 series hd4650 card OpenGL and KMS drivers crash the system at the wrong time, taking out open files, possibly including pan files.) -- 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
