* 0.98 amnesia
@ 1999-12-01 13:58 Bud Rogers
1999-12-01 19:45 ` Hans de Graaff
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From: Bud Rogers @ 1999-12-01 13:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
Wow. This morning 0.98 forgot everything. It came up with large numbers of
unread messages in all my mail and news groups, and all groups were back to
default level.
I checked the groups that might have serious can't-afford-to-miss messages,
then caught up everything. Now it seems not to know that I am subscribed
to any newsgroups. I tried touching .newsrc and restarting gnus but that
didn't seem to have any effect.
The only thing I can think of that has changed since yesterday when it was
working perfectly, is that I set up some mail/news preferences in netscape
to get rid of a nagging error that it sometimes gives me. I suspect
netscape has done something nasty to me but I'm not sure what. Has anyone
else run into this?
Sigh. And things were going so well...
--
Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net>
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* Re: 0.98 amnesia
1999-12-01 13:58 0.98 amnesia Bud Rogers
@ 1999-12-01 19:45 ` Hans de Graaff
1999-12-02 0:30 ` Bud Rogers
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From: Hans de Graaff @ 1999-12-01 19:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net> writes:
> The only thing I can think of that has changed since yesterday when
> it was working perfectly, is that I set up some mail/news
> preferences in netscape to get rid of a nagging error that it
> sometimes gives me. I suspect netscape has done something nasty to
> me but I'm not sure what. Has anyone else run into this?
Isn't this because Netscape then perhaps makes a new .newsrc file,
which is then read by Gnus because the timestamp is newer?
Thanks for reminding me why I have this in my .gnus:
(setq gnus-startup-file "/home/graaff/.newsrc-news.tudelft.nl")
That causes the normal .newsrc file to be called
.newsrc-news.tudelft.nl, and Gnus' own file
.newsrc-news.tudelft.nl.eld. If something else writes a .newsrc file,
Gnus takes no notice.
Hans
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* Re: 0.98 amnesia
1999-12-01 19:45 ` Hans de Graaff
@ 1999-12-02 0:30 ` Bud Rogers
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From: Bud Rogers @ 1999-12-02 0:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl> writes:
> Isn't this because Netscape then perhaps makes a new .newsrc file,
> which is then read by Gnus because the timestamp is newer?
That was it. And I found a .newsrc~ from before the change last night.
Had to read through some old stuff, but I'm back in business. Now I
remember why I never mess with netscape mail/news. Plaach!
>
> Thanks for reminding me why I have this in my .gnus:
>
> (setq gnus-startup-file "/home/graaff/.newsrc-news.tudelft.nl")
>
> That causes the normal .newsrc file to be called
> .newsrc-news.tudelft.nl, and Gnus' own file
> .newsrc-news.tudelft.nl.eld. If something else writes a .newsrc file,
> Gnus takes no notice.
Thought I had something like that too, but I've been through too many
changes in the last few months. Not all my fixes have caught up. Thanks
for the reminder.
--
Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net>
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