Re: couple of questions about servers and agent

[NAGY Andras <nagya@inf.elte.hu>]

On Mon, 08 Jul 2002, at 15:40, Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:

>> Actually, not even the partially downloaded groups were readable
>> offline.
>
> Hm.  What happened?  Were there any information in the
> ~/News/agent/server/group directory?

I managed to have gnus-agent-fetch-session run successfully.  It
created the following files in News/agent:

lib/servers:
  ("nntp:news")

nntp/news/agent.lib/history:
  an entry for each article downloaded

nntp/news/group/name/and/articles/1122:
  usual spool format

(No `active' file or similar.)



When unplugged and trying to open a group on the nntp:news server, I
get:

  Couldn't activate group nntp+news:elte.prog-mat: No such group: elte.prog-mat
  

  
When starting gnus with gnus-unplugged, I get:

  Cannot read partial active file from nntp server.

but the bootstrap goes on, and the previous behaviour continues.
  

When trying to switch to plugged mode, checking for new news, noticing
that the server is down and pressing C-g, I'm asked

  Unable to open nntp:news, go offline? (y or n)

If I answer yes, I get

  Cannot read partial active file from nntp server.

and the agent remains online.


It seems to me that the agent misses some active file.  Any ideas?



Andras