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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Changing *name* of newsserver
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 06:53:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4noer74kt2.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <863c8lc4ft.fsf@i3d.home> (Robert Epprecht's message of "Sun, 07 Mar 2004 11:55:02 +0100")

On Sun, 07 Mar 2004, epprecht@solnet.ch wrote:

> The newsserver I'm getting news from has changed its name (from
> "news.cis.dfn.de" to "news.individual.net"). Fortunately they did
> *not* change the news spool and the article numbering :-)
> 
> So I did the following:
> backup
> edited .gnus.el and .authinfo
> renamed directory ~/News/agent/nntp/news.cis.dfn.de/ to
> ~/News/agent/nntp/news.individual.net/
> 
> Is this The Right Way to do this?  Did I forget something?
> (I don't care about the few "undownloaded" articles)

I don't use the agent, so for me this was simply

perl -p -i.bak -e 's/cis\.dfn\.de/individual.net/' ~/.newsrc.eld ~/.gnus.el ~/.authinfo

and that has worked perfectly so far.

Ted



      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-08 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-07 10:55 Robert Epprecht
2004-03-07 11:44 ` Xavier Maillard
2004-03-07 14:56   ` Robert Epprecht
2004-03-07 16:36     ` Jørn Helge B. Dahl
2004-03-08 11:53 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]

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