pan

John Wendel john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Thu Nov 2 22:34:06 UTC 2006


Jack Spaar wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:32:54 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
>> Since the primary/fallback thing doesn't work for me, I'll share what 
>> I did.
>>
>> First I configured pan with "news_server_1" and then shut it down. I 
>> then renamed the ".pan2" directory to "pan2_server1". Next I started 
>> pan again and configured "news_server_2", shut it down, and renamed 
>> ".pan2" to "pan2_server2". Now I can select a news server by renaming 
>> either "pan2_server1" or "pan2_server2" to ".pan2", and starting pan. 
>> When I'm done, I rename .pan2 back to the original name. A simple 
>> script makes this all transparent.
>>
> 
> That's a useful idea.  For that matter you could set the PAN_HOME
> environment variable instead of changing the .pan2 directory name:
> 
> 	$ PAN_HOME=~/pan2_server1 pan
> and
> 	$ PAN_HOME=~/pan2_server2 pan
> 
> 6 of 1...
> --Jack
> 

Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware of $PAN_HOME (time to RTFM). Much 
better than renaming the files.

I've been trying to figure out how to run 2 copies of pan, maybe this 
is the answer. I'll definitely try it.

Thanks

John




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