Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-08 Thread Graham Lawrence
> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:23:28 + (UTC) Excerpted From: Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> > LOL!  I don't know about your end, but your description of it was > certainly worth the trouble of all that explanation from my end. =:^) > I'm glad. A slight return for all the trouble you've taken on m

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-08 Thread Duncan
Graham Lawrence posted on Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:08:12 -0800 as excerpted: > In fact the effect of the \s is that Pan does nothing at all. Which > might make you ask... then what was all that business about Pan in > perpetual download mode? The full truth is probably unrecoverable, but > contains a

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-07 Thread Graham Lawrence
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 19:16:10 + (UTC) Excerpted mostly From: Duncan I hope this amuses, and doesn't tug anyone's off-topic whiskers too much. >> Turns out the problem was my quoting the quotes with \. > > IIRC I mentioned that quote-escaping, since what that was effectively > doing was kil

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-07 Thread Rhialto
(sorry, getting more and more off-topic..) On Mon 07 Nov 2011 at 10:21:52 +, James Hawtin wrote: > Rhialto wrote: > >wel... once upon a time, I used the hex memory editor in the > >firmware / boot PROM of Sun 3 workstations at the university to change > >the user id number of my shell. To

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-07 Thread James Hawtin
Rhialto wrote: wel... once upon a time, I used the hex memory editor in the firmware / boot PROM of Sun 3 workstations at the university to change the user id number of my shell. To that of the system administrator, of course. He didn't like that, when I told him, but there was little he coul

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/06/2011 09:38 AM, Graham Lawrence wrote: [snip] pan --no-gui -o /home/g/Films --nzb "${nzb[1]}" 2>/home/g/pan.debug Slight topic change: are you trying to d/l from a list of nzb files? -- Vegetarians eat vegetables, Humanitarians frighten me. __

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-06 Thread Duncan
Graham Lawrence posted on Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:38:35 -0800 as excerpted: > Dang, this is a fine group, where I've been introduced to newsgroups and > the intricacies of downloading from nzbs, what I guess should be called > implicit compound conditionals in Bash, several new linux commands, and > h

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-06 Thread Graham Lawrence
Dang, this is a fine group, where I've been introduced to newsgroups and the intricacies of downloading from nzbs, what I guess should be called implicit compound conditionals in Bash, several new linux commands, and how to use email. And my Pan download completed using pan --no-gui -o /home/g/Fi

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-06 Thread Duncan
Steven D'Aprano posted on Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:23:41 +1100 as excerpted: > It is common sense really: before pressing Send, consider how your email > will appear to the recipient. Will it make sense? Can they understand > what you are responding to? Do they have to scroll through 20 pages of > quot

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Rhialto wrote: On Fri 04 Nov 2011 at 13:57:51 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: "Real Men" read a hex-dump of /dev/kmem and just know where the process table is placed in memory. :-) wel... once upon a time, I used the hex memory editor in the firmware / boot PROM of Sun 3 workstations at the univers

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-05 Thread Duncan
Graham Lawrence posted on Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:48:18 -0700 as excerpted: [as Ron requested, please snip unrelated] > I guess there are certain drawbacks to learning by google, you never > know the quality of the source of an answer, nor whether it is entirely > appropriate for the situation one is

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/05/2011 09:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: It is common sense really: before pressing Send, consider how your email will appear to the recipient. Will it make sense? Can they understand what you are responding to? Do they have to scroll through 20 pages of quoted text to see your reply? An

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Graham Lawrence wrote: Please excuse my last 2 posts, I received a note that I should not top-post, so to those two, I bottom-posted, which seems even worse. The purpose of email is communication. Anything which makes communication more difficult should be avoided, whether that is top-posting

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-05 Thread Graham Lawrence
Please excuse my last 2 posts, I received a note that I should not top-post, so to those two, I bottom-posted, which seems even worse. This time I'm deleting all the repeated text by hand. Perhaps one of you would be kind enough to say if this produces the proper format for your mailing list. ___

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
PLEASE snip the *huge* amounts of redundant verbiage!!! On 11/05/2011 08:48 AM, Graham Lawrence wrote: On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:00 AM, wrote: Send Pan-users mailing list submissions to pan-users@nongnu.org [snip] it is. Thank you again for all your excellent advice, and I do apolo

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-05 Thread Graham Lawrence
gt; dir.  But that seems quite unlikely indeed. > > Perhaps the partition on which you have /home/g is full?  Equally > unlikely.  Quota issue?  If anything, even more unlikely.  Depending on > your distro, maybe SELinux or similar security issue?  Possible, > particularly as I don&

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-04 Thread Rhialto
On Fri 04 Nov 2011 at 13:57:51 -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: > "Real Men" read a hex-dump of /dev/kmem and just know where the process > table is placed in memory. :-) wel... once upon a time, I used the hex memory editor in the firmware / boot PROM of Sun 3 workstations at the university to change t

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/04/2011 02:57 PM, Zan Lynx wrote: On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 22:47 +, Duncan wrote: Ron Johnson posted on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:34:09 -0500 as excerpted: Anyway... "Task Manager" (Real Men run top(1) in a separate window...) just reports what the kernel tells it. Meanwhile, if you're goi

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-04 Thread Zan Lynx
On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 22:47 +, Duncan wrote: > Ron Johnson posted on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:34:09 -0500 as excerpted: > > > Anyway... "Task Manager" (Real Men run top(1) in a separate window...) > > just reports what the kernel tells it. > Meanwhile, if you're going to make the real-men/top asse

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-03 Thread Duncan
Ron Johnson posted on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:28:23 -0500 as excerpted: > On 11/03/2011 05:47 PM, Duncan wrote: >> Ron Johnson posted on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:34:09 -0500 as excerpted: >> >>> Anyway... "Task Manager" (Real Men run top(1) in a separate window...) >>> just reports what the kernel tells it

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/03/2011 05:47 PM, Duncan wrote: Ron Johnson posted on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:34:09 -0500 as excerpted: Anyway... "Task Manager" (Real Men run top(1) in a separate window...) just reports what the kernel tells it. I parsed his "task manager" reference as to pan's TM, not the one in his DE,

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-03 Thread Duncan
Ron Johnson posted on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:34:09 -0500 as excerpted: > Anyway... "Task Manager" (Real Men run top(1) in a separate window...) > just reports what the kernel tells it. I parsed his "task manager" reference as to pan's TM, not the one in his DE, corresponding to top, etc. Meanwhile

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
I've used "pan --no-gui --nzb ${FOO}.nzb -o ." on *many* occasions and it always returns to the $ prompt when d/l is complete. Using v0.135. If you want something to run only if a process errors out, then use "||". For example: $ pan --no-gui --nzb ${FOO}.nzb -o . || dem Anyway... "Task

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-03 Thread Duncan
Graham Lawrence posted on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:17:44 -0700 as excerpted: > Duncan, thank you for pointing out that && is a conditional test. I had > understood && simply as "wait until previous instruction completes > before proceeding", because that is the question I sought to answer when > I fir

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-03 Thread Graham Lawrence
gt; to be found after I terminated Pan with Ctrl-c.  I have no explanation > for its absence. > > > > -- > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 23:40:10 + (UTC) > From: Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> > To: pan-users@nongnu.org >

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-01 Thread Duncan
Graham Lawrence posted on Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:57:31 -0700 as excerpted: > In a bash script I use > > pan --no-gui -o /home/g/Films --nzb \"${nzb[1]}\" 2>/home/g/pan.debug > && if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then dem 1; exit 1; fi Given the semicolons, I'm assuming that's all one line. But it doesn't make

[Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-01 Thread Graham Lawrence
In a bash script I use pan --no-gui -o /home/g/Films --nzb \"${nzb[1]}\" 2>/home/g/pan.debug && if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then dem 1; exit 1; fi to download through an nzb file The download process will not terminate, instead it downloads duplicates of files already obtained, e.g. from ls Gangs of New

[Pan-users] Command line use

2007-06-12 Thread Ted Sudtell
Hello, I would like to use Pan from cron, I have a satellite connection with a download limit 21 hrs a day. 12pm to 3am is open for unlimited download. I did a lookup in the archives and saw a few messages back in 2002. Does anyone know if this can be done? Thanks -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ted