No 'lib' directory under agent

No 'lib' directory under agent

[Harry Putnam]

I've had the experience several times when  setting up a new instance
of gnus, that some directories under ~/News are not generated when
gnus is run as they should be.  Particularly the ~/News/agent/lib
directory is missing.   So any attemp to write to the "categories"
file fails because their is no such file or `lib' directory.

Althougth running 0.66, I've seen this happen in several versions.

No problem to make the directory, but I wonder what might be wrong to
cause this.  
What directorys should show up the first few times gnus is run? 
What files should be in ~/News/agent/?
What should the structure look like when using only default settings?

~/News/"then what?"

Knowing what is supposed to be there might help analyze what is going wrong.


-- 
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Running Redhat Linux 5.1

Re: No 'lib' directory under agent

[Simon Josefsson]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Particularly the ~/News/agent/lib directory is missing.

I haven't noticed any other directories missing, this patch made me a
happy gnus agent user. (I've sent it off to bugs@gnus.org.)

1998-12-26 20:31:46  Simon Josefsson  <jas@pdc.kth.se>

        * gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-write-servers): Make directory.

--- lisp/gnus-agent.el- Sat Dec 26 20:31:28 1998
+++ lisp/gnus-agent.el  Sat Dec 26 20:09:10 1998
@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@

 (defun gnus-agent-write-servers ()
   "Write the alist of covered servers."
+  (gnus-make-directory (nnheader-concat gnus-agent-directory "lib"))
   (with-temp-file (nnheader-concat gnus-agent-directory "lib/servers")
     (prin1 gnus-agent-covered-methods (current-buffer))))