From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35624 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Slrnpull Date: 04 Apr 2001 12:08:56 +1000 Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Message-ID: <87itklo1qf.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> References: <87ofufhpi4.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <87u245vk27.church.of.emacs@meta.verbum.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171339 4112 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:35:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:35:39 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: news,laptop,server,leafnode,home,groups,firewall,daniel Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25894 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2001 02:10:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25889 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2001 02:10:18 -0000 Original-Received: from melancholia.danann.net (203.36.211.210) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Apr 2001 02:10:18 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (melancholia.danann.net [203.36.211.210]) by melancholia.danann.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557AB2A887 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:09:49 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9E95F82020; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:08:56 +1000 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87u245vk27.church.of.emacs@meta.verbum.org> (Colin Walters's message of "03 Apr 2001 15:51:12 -0400") X-Homepage: http://danann.net/ X-spies: Vince Foster Panama Soviet colonel White Water class struggle CIA radar smuggle Kibo Treasury ECHELON quiche NORAD NWO User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) XEmacs/21.2 (Urania) Original-Lines: 48 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35624 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35624 On 03 Apr 2001, Colin Walters wrote: > Daniel Pittman 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 -- The Believer had better face himself and ask squarely: Do I literally believe "God" has a penis? If the answer is no, then it seems only logical to drop the ridiculous practice of referring to "God" as "he." -- Robert Anton Wilson