Re: [Pan-users] What tells Pan where to save??

2012-11-26 Thread Duncan
Steven D'Aprano posted on Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:41:13 +1100 as excerpted: > I wonder why Pan records fixed paths instead of relative to the user's > home directory? > > I mean, it's fine to support fixed paths if the user sets one, but by > default it would be better to have locations of the form:

Re: [Pan-users] What tells Pan where to save??

2012-11-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:45:45PM -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/26/2012 02:22 PM, Duncan wrote: > >JZ has the right idea, but IIRC the wrong file. The paths for the newsrc > >files are found in servers.xml, not preferences.xml. > > I think that you're going to need to edit both, then. Preferen

Re: [Pan-users] What tells Pan where to save??

2012-11-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/26/2012 02:22 PM, Duncan wrote: JZ has the right idea, but IIRC the wrong file. The paths for the newsrc files are found in servers.xml, not preferences.xml. I think that you're going to need to edit both, then. Preferences.xml tells Pan where to save things you've downloaded, so it yo

Re: [Pan-users] What tells Pan where to save??

2012-11-26 Thread Duncan
Beartooth posted on Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:27:20 + as excerpted: > My Event Log keeps geting messages like these : > > Mon Nov 26 12:07:56 2012 - Unable to save "/home/X/.pan2/newsrc-4" > Mon Nov 26 12:07:56 2012 - Unable to save "/home/X/.pan2/newsrc-4" > Permission denied > > Th

Re: [Pan-users] What tells Pan where to save??

2012-11-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/26/2012 10:27 AM, Beartooth wrote: That "X" in there is the old userid -- I copied over .pan2 from User to Newuser, and ran chown against all of/home/ Newuser, or tried to. Where have I goofed, and how do I fix it? ~/.pan2/group-preferences.xml still says that things

[Pan-users] What tells Pan where to save??

2012-11-26 Thread Beartooth
My Event Log keeps geting messages like these : Mon Nov 26 12:07:56 2012 - Unable to save "/home/X/.pan2/newsrc-4" Mon Nov 26 12:07:56 2012 - Unable to save "/home/X/.pan2/newsrc-4" Permission denied The machine it happens on, currently running CentOS6, is one which g