From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45567 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: NAGY Andras Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: couple of questions about servers and agent Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 15:16:59 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026134333 8883 127.0.0.1 (8 Jul 2002 13:18:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:18:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17RYPl-0002JA-00 for ; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 15:18:53 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17RYOE-0003Oz-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 08:17:18 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 08 Jul 2002 08:17:41 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA21574 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:17:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 11752 invoked by alias); 8 Jul 2002 13:17:01 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11747 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2002 13:17:01 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 8 Jul 2002 13:17:01 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17RYVB-0004rc-00 for ; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 15:24:29 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mamut.elte.hu Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1026134668 18329 157.181.150.140 (8 Jul 2002 13:24:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jul 2002 13:24:29 GMT Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zYq+APOIuSFox7CIXOHrcXFdGYU= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45567 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45567 Here are the relevant parts of my configuration: ,----[ .gnus ] | (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil)) | (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods | '((nnml "mail" | (nnml-directory "~/gnus/mail") | (nnml-active-file "~/gnus/mail/active") | (nnml-newsgroups-file "~/gnus/mail/active") | (nnml-get-new-mail t)) | (nntp "news" | (nntp-address "ludens.elte.hu")))) `---- ,----[ .newsrc.eld ] | (setq gnus-server-alist '(("archive" nnml "mail"))) `---- Latest CVS Gnus. And the questions: In the Server buffer, why do {nntp:news} and {nnml:mail} appear twice? My nntp:news backend became quite unstable recently, so I decided to agentize it. Pushed `J a' on it in the Server buffer, and while online, used `J s' to fetch all unread articles into the cache. Due to the server being unstable, the downloading timed out, but the agent displayed "Finished fetching articles into the Gnus agent", altough it should have displayed some kind of error message, I believe. I decided to go on with the partially downloaded news. After going offline, Gnus still tried `sometimes' to contact the (unavailable) server. May this be related to the server being listed twice in the server buffer, but only one instance being marked as `(agent)' ? Actually, not even the partially downloaded groups were readable offline. I'm confused. Is the Agent such non-robust, or am I doing something wrong? Andras