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[John Wendel]

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