From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76082 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: how to start clean Gnus Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:39:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87wrlpcw91.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <87mxo7yrqn.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87sjxyvjn9.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wrn6stiq.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87fwttu9pt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87r5c8o7mf.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aait3ail.fsf@gnus.org> <87lj2achk2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wrlune8j.fsf@gnus.org> <87hbcy6ic8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vd1elyhd.fsf@gnus.org> <87wrls3ok3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hbcw63fa.fsf@gnus.org> <87fwsfzjp8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wrlruvb1.fsf@gnus.org> <87ipxauogf.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87lj2528zs.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296200433 12784 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 07:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:40:33 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24434@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 28 08:40:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiiwV-00033D-Ck for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:40:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Piivn-0007Ai-VZ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:39:44 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Piivm-0007Aa-C0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:39:42 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Piivk-0004CM-1o for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:39:42 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Piivi-0005ZZ-RB for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:39:38 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.175]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p0S7dasH011797 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:39:37 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB16107F9 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:39:36 +0100 (CET) X-Face: 3Phac&+dw=IZHjhua]bp}LH<*p{qzj8u+ Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76082 Archived-At: On Fri, Jan 28 2011, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Ted Zlatanov writes: > >> Slightly related: how would I start Gnus with a completely clear >> configuration, ignoring everything in ~/News, ~/Mail, and all Gnus init >> files? > > I think that's virtually impossible. :-) > > When I'm testing start-up-from-scratch, I create a test user and rm -r > everything that user has first. If you don't have root access: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- emacs_test=~/path/to/my/emacs_test mkdir -p $emacs_test cd $emacs_test ln -s ~/.Xauthority . HOME=$PWD emacs & --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/