Re: [Pan-users] How to change Pan's temp(orary) path to somewhere else?

[Ant]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 06:59:17PM +0100, Jürgen Weinelt wrote:

> >Are you still using the old version?
> 
> No, I'm running 1.39 now. Quite a few nice improvements. But I admit
> I'm too lazy to download & compile the bleeding edge developer versions.

Same here. Too much work, and I don't have a lot of free time and energy 
to deal with computers these days due to life. :(

 
> > I would like to use the newer version, but it is a hassle to compile,
> > find packages, meet dependencies, etc. Ugh. All we need is just to
> > redirect the temporary location!
> 
> Oh, now I see that I misinterpreted your initial problem description.
> You're running out of space on /tmp, while my problem was running
> out of space on /home (/home/..../News, to be precise).

Yeah, but it probably will do the same for save area. ;) 

 
> Well, you're on Linux, so you could try making "/tmp" a softlink to
> /mnt/somebigpartition (but I believe that quite a few programs won't
> be too happy about that for security reasons), or you could temporarily
> mount /dev/somebigpartition over /tmp
> ("mount /dev/somebigpartition /tmp" should do the trick). It's generally
> considered good practive to put "/tmp" and "/var/log" on a separate
> partition, NOT on the root partition. Both "/tmp" and "/var/log" can
> overflow really easily, separating them from the root partition is a
> good insurance against all kinds of trouble.
> 
> Both suggestions are of course just workarounds. IMO pan should check
> for free space before starting a download; both on the temporary
> location (probably /tmp) and on the final target (usually the drive
> with the user's News directory).

I was hoping I can only tell Pan to use whatever and not for everything. 
Only Pan hogs like crazy sometimes. :(
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