[Pan-users] Re: Two instances of PAN-a couple of glitches

[Duncan]

SciFi <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sat, 15 Nov 2008
21:50:22 +0000:

> The servers.xml file(s), in your new location(s), need to be edited by
> hand: in particular the <newsrc> string(s) need to match the new
> location(s) of your newsrc-N file(s) for each server, even if in the
> same subdir there.  It will become evident once you see. That seems to
> be the only (or rare) thing that pan2 hard–codes for some reason. And
> pan2 seems to change that correlation sometimes, so hopefully your files
> did not get altered in that regard since then.

Hmm... that may explain...  As I said I haven't been able to reproduce 
this problem tho I've seen it reported a couple times, but I cloned my 
existing config so already knew I had to adjust the pointers to point at 
the new location.

For setup of a new instance, I'd have expected a new pan setup to get it 
right as long as the PAN_HOME variable was set properly.  If it's not, if 
that bit is hard-coded as you say, that's certainly a bug (the more so 
since it was Charles himself that I got the PAN_HOME hint from, he said 
it worked, so if it didn't, it's a bug).  And that bug may explain the 
several "pan forgets my newsgroup settings" bugs I've seen reported, but 
could never duplicate.

> (coulda sworn I put a post of that tidbit here or in the devel group,
> but cannot find it)

If you did, you sufficiently obfuscated it that I didn't recognize the 
implications, because this is the first I've seen of it, and I follow 
both groups/lists religiously.  Well, either that, or maybe that post 
didn't make it to gmane, and thus not to me, since that's how I follow 
the pan lists/groups.

But thanks!  That potentially clears up /that/ mystery!

@ Rick:

Are you following this or do I need to break it down a bit (now that I 
have the new info myself)?

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