Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan keeps "forgetting" server

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/23/2008 Duncan wrote:
> Reinforcing the above, definitely, what version of pan are you using? 
>  
> Modern (0.132 being the latest, 0.133 should be out soon, I hope) pan 
> keeps the server information in a separate file, servers.xml, in the 
> (by 
> default) ~/.pan2 dir.

I am, of course, using .132, Waxed in Black.  Yes, the info is in 
~/.pan2/server.xml, and every time the info vanishes, that file gets 
overwritten.  I know, because I close Pan and check.  (I now have a 
backup copy; next time it happens, I just copy it over the bad one and 
be done with it.)  I've not "done a proper fsck," because I only 
installed Fedora 9 about 2 months ago, and except for some problems 
caused by an intereaction between my nVidia drivers and xscreensaver 
have had no problems or crashes.  Frankly, except for this, I see no 
evidence of file corruption, and after over 30 years using computers, I 
know what it looks like.

I might add, btw, that nuking and starting over would be a major PITA, 
considering that, as I've mentioned earlier, there are at least 1,000 
old posts on the server in the group I frequent, and Pan is not exactly 
good about sorting by date!