Re: Slrnpull

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On 03 Apr 2001, Colin Walters wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
> 
>> It's wrong. Leafnode /is/ an NNTP server. I use it daily to do news
>> on my disconnected laptop and my small 23/7 home site.
>> 
>> Works great. I would not hesitate to recommend it and can offer help
>> setting it up, should you require some.
> 
> Ok, I'll bite: what's the best way to use Leafnode for disconnected
> operation?  My setup is currently to have Leafnode running on my home
> firewall, and run Gnus on my main computer to read news from the
> firewall.

Personally, I installed leafnode on my server at home and on my laptop.
I then sync news onto the laptop with a script that only does it when I
am connected.

Posting and reading have a local news server, while the server on the
24/7 system at home thinks I am just another news reader. :)

> I installed Leafnode on the laptop, and pointed it at the Leafnode on
> the firewall, copied over the interesting.groups directory, and ran
> "fetchnews".  However, Gnus on the laptop doesn't seem to work
> correctly when I rsync over my News/, .newsrc*, etc. files from my
> main computer.  The groups seem to don't have any new articles.
> Perhaps this is because the article numbers changed?

I would say so, yes. Transferring between news servers is never trivial.

You might do it by coping the leafnode data wholesale from the server to
the laptop, then unsubscribing the groups you didn't want on the laptop.

That should preserve the state... but would probably break when updating
from the fixed server. *sigh*

I don't know how to do /that/.

I just caught up with news, created the new server on the laptop, then
started reading from there.

        Daniel

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