[Pan-users] pan cmd line things

[markballard]

hi -

I'm using linux (amd64/gentoo) and pan r0.139.  a couple things about cmd 
line/"--no-gui --verbose" for nzb files:

a)  I have primary and one fallback set in servers.xml but if I put an 
invalid port in for primary before starting pan (to test if cmd line mode 
handles multiple servers like gui apparently does) pan seems to ignore 
there's a backup and just sits there not d/l anything.

b)  ctl-q shows in gui as how to close pan but I can't figure out how to 
properly close pan when using --no-gui ("q" nor ctl-q stop it, I have to ctl-c).

c)  I'm not finding a way to have pan not redownload part of a rar set that 
already exists.  for example I start an nzb d/l, have to stop pan, it has 
its tasks.nzb but it lists everything from the original nzb.  so to avoid 
"_copy" when I restart I have to edit those articles out of tasks.nzb (I 
could open queue and remove the existing ones there but in --no-gui that's 
not available; plus imm it's kind of clunky anyway having to manually tell 
pan in effect something was already d/l so don't d/l again).

or maybe the trouble is I can't find a way to stop pan gracefully in cmd 
line mode before entire nzb d/l has finished?  ie if I could it would remove 
from tasks.nzb/queue what's already been d/l?

otoh wrt nzb imm it would still be handy if pan removed anything in the 
queue/tasks,nzb when it sees the filename is already there.

d)  a minor thing is there's no "time/files remaining" kind of notification 
using "--no-gui --verbose".

thanks.