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[Pan-users] System crash, Pan reset to defaults
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Dave |
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[Pan-users] System crash, Pan reset to defaults |
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Thu, 6 Sep 2007 21:50:19 +0100 |
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I had a system crash the other day, (USB scanner locked up and unplugging
it/re-plugging it killed FreeBSD 5.5)
Pan0.127 was open at the time. When I restarted everything, Pan had resorted
to it's default settings for more or less everthing. Pane layout, no groups
subscribed (not even the list of groups on the servers), profiles gone Bah!
The news servers were still configured, as is my score file, but every other
setting is lost, I think.
Of course, I only found out *after* I restarted Pan so files probably got
over-written. I shut Pan down and made a copy of ~/.pan2
No, I did not have a back up. TBH, nothing I read/post to usenet is valuable
enough that I'm bothered that it's gone. Most of the groups I read are from
my ISPs news server and of the two they have, I use the text-only one which
has a retention period measured in months, over a year for the ISP internal
groups, so that's not an issue.
What I would like to recover, if possible, is the profiles I set up.
So, two questions.
1) is it likely there's copies of any of pans config files elsewhere? eg pan
makes backups of changed files.
2) is this a situation pan should be able to cope with or is it simply that
the files were left open and got trashed by fsck/buffers not being flushed?
--
Dave
- [Pan-users] System crash, Pan reset to defaults,
Dave <=