From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/45575 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: NAGY Andras Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: couple of questions about servers and agent Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:45:17 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026139539 21105 127.0.0.1 (8 Jul 2002 14:45:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 14:45:39 +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 17RZli-0005UB-00 for ; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:45:38 +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 17RZlg-0004h6-00; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 09:45:36 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 08 Jul 2002 09:45:59 -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 JAA21921 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:45:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 13829 invoked by alias); 8 Jul 2002 14:45:19 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13824 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2002 14:45:19 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 8 Jul 2002 14:45:19 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17RZsf-0006vv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:52:49 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 55 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mamut.elte.hu Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1026139969 25794 157.181.150.140 (8 Jul 2002 14:52:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jul 2002 14:52:49 GMT Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q3zbxk+VBzkaniJHdligWpFjbb4= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45575 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:45575 On Mon, 08 Jul 2002, at 15:40, Simon Josefsson 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