Re: [Pan-users] Update on cron-friendly Pan

[Frank Van Damme]

On Monday 04 November 2002 19:24, Charles Kerr wrote:
> I did a little exploratory hacking last night on making Pan cron'able.
> It looks like we've done a good job of decoupling Pan's backend and GUI:
> in 15 minutes I was able to get a gui-free version Pan start up and process
> tasks.xml. :)

Good job!

> So, where do we want to go with this?
>
> * If the goal is to just have Pan run tasks silently and exit,
>   then all that remains is to convince Pan to exit when the queue
>   is empty in console mode.
>
> * Having the status messages from the bottom of the main window
>   (showing percentages of a task completed, for example), a la wget,
>   is also do'able, but more work and maybe not desirable in cron.

Uh? Where would the output go?

> * A middle-ground approach that I like, which gives user feedback
>   but also plays well in a cron environment, would be to have Pan
>   write all the log messages (ie, everything the GUI puts in the
>   log window) into a log file ($PAN_HOME/log.txt?).

I thought of that reading point 2 :-)

Maybe some kind of html output is nice? doesn't hae to be more then <table> to 
separate date and action.

Frank