From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52731 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: which gnus files used to hold gnus state? (for manual) Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 19:12:53 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <84k7cpbip6.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84d6iin27t.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053191667 23941 80.91.224.249 (17 May 2003 17:14:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 17:14:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1275@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 17 19:14:22 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19H5GH-0006Dd-00 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 19:14:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19H5HU-0005Ax-00; Sat, 17 May 2003 12:15:36 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19H5F1-0005AT-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 17 May 2003 12:13:03 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 7392 invoked by alias); 17 May 2003 17:13:03 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7387 invoked from network); 17 May 2003 17:13:03 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 17 May 2003 17:13:03 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19H5MC-0003Sz-00 for ; Sat, 17 May 2003 19:20:28 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50877359.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1053192028 13006 80.135.115.89 (17 May 2003 17:20:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 May 2003 17:20:28 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:y7iCF0Ow+/Plm7k/SLOk4ADIarU= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52731 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52731 Kevin Greiner writes: > kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > >> So, it boils down to this: if you transfer .newsrc.eld, you got to >> transfer the whole hog. If you abstain from .newsrc.eld, then you >> can do the some-groups trick alluded to for nnml and nnfolder (and >> probably nnmaildir). > > But your seen marks are in .newsrc.eld. If you don't include it, how > will you know which articles have been read? Whoops. I guess that means that the seen marks should be written to the .marks/*.mrk files. WDYT? >> Stuff from cache and agent aren't mentioned in .newsrc.eld, so there >> is no problem. > > There's no problem so long as the two machines are sharing the same > servers. The article files in both the agent and the cache are named > after the article number. You'll get garbage if you try to use these > files with any server except the one from which they were fetched (I > realize that this isn't what you proposed. I just want to make sure > that anyone reading this understands). Righty-oh. Thanks for pointing this out. -- This line is not blank.