[Pan-users] RE: Re: Wish: don't start a new instance of pan.

[Duncan]

Lenroc posted <address@hidden>, excerpted
below,  on Thu, 02 Oct 2003 01:56:00 -0700:

> On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 07:58:45 +0100, Toby A Inkster wrote:
>> If someone else has SSHd into my box and is running Pan on a remote X
>> server, I don't want to be prevented from running Pan.
> 
> It's not really a good idea to be running two instances of Pan in any
> case, is it?
> 
> Couldn't that cause conflicts with the data files, etc.?

Not if they are different users, since the data files are kept under
~/.pan, which would be different for each user (under the native *ix,
anyway, no idea how it's done on MSWormOS).

OTOH, PAN is already rather slow and resource hungry when it comes to
dealing with multiple-hundred-thousand post groups.  The possibility
of having TWO separate instances churning away on such groups.. <shudder>

Of course, my ~/.pan is a symlink to a separate, dedicated partition.  If
both attempted to use the same base path on the same dedicated partition..
but that'd always be a problem, even if both weren't running together, and
it could as easily be solved with either separate dedicated partitions, or
different paths on the same partition.  Thus, no unusual problem there.

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