Jack Spaar wrote:
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:06:13 +1030, Tim wrote:
I've seen other news clients work that way, and they made a right pig's
breakfast of things when the same group was available on different
servers, with the same messages but with different article numbers or
message IDs, more so if a server didn't have all of the messages that
you wanted to read (you didn't have a way to manually choose the server
that you wanted, to try and work around it).
Does Pan get that right?
I can't say if pan gets that right (is there *any* way to get
cross-server article re-indexing right?)
Pan does have a priority scheme where you rank each server as either
primary or fallback. But nothing stops you from designating two primary
servers for a particular group, and Zeus only knows what happens when they
disagree.
--Jack
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.
Hope this helps someone.
--
John
