[Pan-users] Re: The old, annoying and essential problem with old headers

[Jim Henderson]

On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:30:37 +0000, Duncan wrote:

>> That's a useful tip, would be handy, though, if it were done in the pan
>> code itself - unless there is a legit reason for running 2 simultaneous
>> sessions?
> 
> There is, and I use pan that way personally.
> 
> By making use of the $PAN_HOME environment variable, it's possible to
> point pan at a data/config dir other than the normal ~/.pan2.

That makes sense to me, and almost as soon as I hit 'send', I remembered 
the $PAN_HOME variable.

So perhaps a modification to the idea would be to use a lockfile in 
$PAN_HOME and if that file is present, don't start a second instance (ie, 
one instance per $PAN_HOME).

Jim

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