From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26052 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arcady Genkin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: moving nntp servers Date: 27 Oct 1999 21:06:51 -0400 Organization: Wgaf Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87iu3sguok.fsf@main.wgaf.net> References: <87r9ikdvre.fsf@main.wgaf.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163333 17390 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:22:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:22:13 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22010 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:07:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAB16527; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:07:21 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:07:41 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA22319 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:07:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA21999 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:06:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from main.wgaf.net ([24.114.152.71]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <19991028010503.ETYG29247.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@main.wgaf.net> for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:05:03 -0700 Original-Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11ge1j-00059a-00; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:06:51 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:41:49 +0200" Original-Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26052 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26052 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Arcady Genkin writes: > > 1. Can I not lose my Topics layout? Is it possible to retain > > newsgroups' names in their old Topics, albeit with wrong indices? > > Hm. What happens if you say M-x > gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups RET, then change the NNTP > server? Make a backup copy of your .newsrc.eld file, first. Hi! Just to follow up... When I did gnus-group-clear-data-on-native-groups, and then changed gnus-select-method to my new nntp server name, gnus read the old groups off the new server w/o problems. The only problem was that gnus used to save its data into .newsrc-news1.on.sympatico.ca.eld (corresponds to my previous news server), and when I changed it to the new one, on exit it still saved into the old file. On next start, gnus didn't read the old .newsrc-news1.on.sympatico.ca.eld, but loaded .newsrc.eld instead. I thus lost all of my topics, susbscribed groups names etc. However, renaming .newsrc-news1.on.sympatico.ca.eld into .newsrc.eld solved even that. After that little playing, I must admit that the transition was rather painless. Cheers to that! Thanks, -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)