Re: [Pan-users] .nzb download seems to be going to /dev/null

[Lacrocivious Acrophosist]

Graham Lawrence <address@hidden> writes:

> 
> Duncan, I'm using Pan 0.133, and thank you for the very detailed
> response.  I hope you just pasted most of it and didn't have to type
> it all, because since I ran
> 
> strace -feopen pan 2>&1 | grep -v 'icons\|cursors' | grep /home/g > pan.debug
> 
> I think I know what the problem is, and it has nothing to do with Pan.
> strace was very consistent in its output. After the initial preamble
> for each task, it generated nothing but this pattern
> 
> [pid  5641]
open("/home/g/.pan2/article-cache/part20of78.2Wn&address@hidden",
> O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 
> and it does this for every part in every task.  There is nothing in
> /home/g/.pan2/article-cache/ whose name even begins with p.
> 
> My neighbor recommended newsgroups to me and offered to share his
> account with me if I would split the cost with him.  The first time I
> used it all was well, except it posted a warning to the effect that
> such downloads could only be made to a single computer, which I
> dismissed at the time as an aberration, I was only downloading to one
> computer.  This time around is my second use, and now the penny has
> dropped.  My neighbor's computer is the single computer referred to,
> and it has blocked downloading to mine.
> 
> I am very sorry to have wasted your time on this.
> 

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Speaking only for myself, I can say that Duncan definitely did not waste his
time. That strace tutorial is going in my 'how to do stuff I could never
remember without a cheat-sheet' file ;-)

Once again, Duncan has taught me to do things for which I previously had only
'nodding knowledge'. Thanks Duncan.