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
