[Pan-users] Re: Unable to watch or score srticles - no error message

[Duncan]

Val posted <address@hidden>, excerpted below,  on
Tue, 06 Dec 2005 16:20:33 -0600:

> I am having a strange problem with pan. Scoring doesn't appear to work.
> I originally tried to 'Watch Thread' and nothing happened. I tried to
> 'Ignore Thread' and nothing happened again. No error message and no
> score on the thread.
> 
> Then I tried 'View Article's Scores' -> (got empty list) -> Add -> (the
> criteria are already filled in with my thread's info, but none are
> checked) -> (checked some criteria, changed the score) -> Add -> (No
> error message, empty list) -> Add -> (thread score not changed)
> 
> Is there anything else I can try? Is there a log file I can look at?

As Jim suggests, it's likely scorefile permissions.  Scorefile location is
configured in preferences, on the apps and mail tab.

It could also be an issue with your pcre library (pcre = perl compatible
regular expressions, what PAN ultimately uses to handle scores).  That's
less likely and harder to explain troubleshooting for, however, so
investigate the scorefile perms thing first.

FWIW, my scorefile is in the pan data dir along with everything else PAN
related.  However, that's because I changed the location from the default,
in prefs.  The idea with the general location is that you may have
multiple news clients and want to share the scorefile between them.  Since
I only use the scorefile with PAN, and I can always move it to a more
general location should that change, it made better sense here to put it
with the rest of the PAN configuration data, so that's exactly what I did.

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