[Pan-users] Re: Subscribed newsgroups disappearing

[David Shochat]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:51:38 -0500, Gerald L wrote:

> John Aldrich wrote:
>> I've got Pan 0.133 running on Fedora 10. For some reason, whenever I
>> close Pan and bring it back up again, it loses all the groups it was
>> subscribed to. It also does not show the list of "other groups" until I
>> select "refresh groups list."
>> 
>> Any idea what's going on here? I have been using Pan for years and
>> never had this problem before....
>> 
>> thanks
> 
> Sounds like a permissions issue preventing Pan from writing to the
> .newsrc file.
> 
> G
...or worse, such as a problem accessing your ~/.pan2 directory itself. I 
think I saw the same thing once in a situation where my ~/.pan2 was a 
symlink to a directory on a remote filesystem that either was not really 
there or had the wrong ownership.
-- David