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[Pan-users] Re: The old, annoying and essential problem with old headers
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Jim Henderson |
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[Pan-users] Re: The old, annoying and essential problem with old headers |
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Sun, 6 Mar 2011 23:53:45 +0000 (UTC) |
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Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) |
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:30:37 +0000, Duncan wrote:
>> That's a useful tip, would be handy, though, if it were done in the pan
>> code itself - unless there is a legit reason for running 2 simultaneous
>> sessions?
>
> There is, and I use pan that way personally.
>
> By making use of the $PAN_HOME environment variable, it's possible to
> point pan at a data/config dir other than the normal ~/.pan2.
That makes sense to me, and almost as soon as I hit 'send', I remembered
the $PAN_HOME variable.
So perhaps a modification to the idea would be to use a lockfile in
$PAN_HOME and if that file is present, don't start a second instance (ie,
one instance per $PAN_HOME).
Jim
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- [Pan-users] Re: The old, annoying and essential problem with old headers, Jim Henderson, 2011/03/06
- [Pan-users] Re: The old, annoying and essential problem with old headers, Duncan, 2011/03/06
- [Pan-users] Re: The old, annoying and essential problem with old headers,
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