[Pan-users] download stops by itself

[joe smith]

I start pan, add some tasks to the queue and walk away, after a while (could be 
an hour or a week) I might find pan open and running but not doing anything 
(i.e. not downloading), the app is not frozen as I can work within it.
in the older version nothing other than quitting and restarting the app seemed 
to work.

I've encountered the same problem with the latest version (on a newer version 
of the OS) but on this one I was able to just hit "restart tasks" and pan 
started downloading again.

I would like to know:
a. is this a known bug or am I the only one to see it ? 
b. I would like to set up some mechanism to do a soft reset to the app every 
hour or so (maybe through cron). it there any signal I can send the app or 
command line switch to establish the restart ??

thanks.