> >> > How do I have Pan use my Tin's ~/.newsrc? I cannot seem to find the > >> > settings. I want both programs to share the same configurations. > >> > >> Once you setup a news server in pan, you can edit the servers.xml file > >> and point the newsrc entry for that server anywhere you want. > >> > >> Here, I simply rename the files to reflect the news server name (so for > >> example, newsrc.gmane, for the gmane.org list2news server I use to get > >> my mailing lists including this one as newsgroups), but you can edit > >> the whole path and point it where you want, if necessary. > >> > >> So just point it at ~/.newsrc, and assuming you have only the one > >> server, you should be fine. (Unfortunately, the newsrc format appears > >> to be single-server only, so pan uses multiple files for multiple > >> servers. Don't try to point more than one server at the same file or > >> you WILL have issues! =8^0 An exception would be servers such as the > >> European and USian servers that some NSPs run, that coordinate their > >> available groups and article sequence numbering, in which case using > >> the same newsrc for all article-sequence-number coordinated servers > >> should be just fine.) > > > > Sweet! Wait, why are our passwords visible in texts in there? > > Shouldn't it be encrypted? :( > > > > Anyways, I edited this XML to use ~/.newsrc that Tin uses with read > > groups marked and stuff. However, Pan still downloaded old headers even > > though I told only new headers? I didn't have this problem in old > > v0.14.2.91. I am currently using Pan v0.133 from a brand new Debian's > > stable installation (it doesn't have the old Pan version to go back to). > > :( > > You had pan shut down when you edited servers.xml, right?
Yep, I checked my servers.xml and it was saved correctly. > As for passwords, mainstream pan doesn't have encryption support anyway, > so they're plain-text over the wire in any case, so there's little reason > to encrypt or even obfuscate them in the config, either. Oh. :( > As for pan versions, I'd not exactly call 0.133 "latest" by /any/ > stretch. That's still the last version Charles put out several years > ago, and there have been quite some bug fixes and updates, since. The > latest official version is 0.135, from this summer, and many users here > choose to build from sources, either from khaley's repo (which is > basically upstream for the official version, now), or from hmueller's > judgefudge repo (he's the most active dev at present and that's where all > the nice new experimental features including binary uploading, ssl > support, and optional score-based automated actions (say automated delete > on ignored, mark-read on <0, download on watched), have been or are being > developed. > > And AFAIK, 0.14.x may still build, if your gcc, glib and gtk+ are old > enough, at least. But it's what, about a half-decade old now, ancient in > computer terms, and I know the newer C++ version has had a number of > patches to build against newer system libs and with newer gcc, so it's > likely you'd need some patching to get the old C version to build on a > reasonably modern system, as well. But it should be possible, at least > as long as gtk2 stays around. When everything switches to gtk3 and the > distros start dumping gtk2, then the old C version will be about as > useful as old pan-0.11, the gnome-1 version, is now, but until then, it > should still build, given some patience and a few patches, if you're > motivated enough. Hmm. Yeah, but the one I have was from Debian's stable so... Would the newer version fix the problem with ~/.newsrc though? -- Quote of the Week: "It's kind of an insane case ... 6,000 ants dressed up as rice and robbed a Chinese restaurant." --Steven Wright /\___/\ Phil./Ant @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | E-mail: [email protected]/[email protected] \ _ / If crediting, then please kindly use Ant nickname ( ) and AQFL URL/link. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
