[Pan-users] Re: download timeout

[Duncan]

wim delvaux posted <address@hidden>,
excerpted below,  on Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:19:53 +0100:

> my news server after a while disconnects with a connection time limit 
> exceeded.
> 
> This causes some multipart downloads to fail and as a consequence sometimes 
> the missing parts already have expired causing the download to fail 
> completely.
> 
> How can I resume a download failed this way automatically ?

PAN at this point is not really setup for unattended downloading.  It
assumes you are there to restart the download, in such cases.  There has
been talk of at some point adding an unattended mode (probably a
commandline mode that could be invoked from cron or the like), but AFAIK,
that's not in CVS or immediate plans (altho current CVS has some /other/
major changes).

The usual Unix-like solution is to run a local newsserv such as leafnode,
configured as a system background daemon, and set to poll and download any
new posts it fines in the configured groups relatively frequently.

You then set its cache to the size necessary to keep a local copy of your
newsgroups, and set PAN to run against the local newsserv, with a
relatively small cache, since it's then connecting to already local
storage.

I haven't done this, but I've read a bonus is far better filtering
abilities on leafnode as compared to PAN, in addition to the fact that
when you connect with PAN, everything's already local, so you don't have
to wait for the downloads.

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