From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38357 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Something breaking batch command - possilbe `marks' related [or] Boot strap mania Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:43:28 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174233 21932 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:23:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 12491 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2001 18:45:33 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (209.144.112.246) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Aug 2001 18:45:33 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 30724 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2001 18:45:25 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO reader.local.lan) (209.144.117.151) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 27 Aug 2001 18:45:25 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.2/8.11.0) id f7RIjJx27965; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:45:19 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.104 Original-Lines: 71 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38357 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38357 Recent cvs, including 5 minutes ago cause an error in my, long in existence, batch send/fetch scripts. The output from script in debug mode indicates gnus is trying to create a directory and file and .marks it should not be: 106: emacs -batch -l /home/reader/.emacs-dir/batch-fetch.el -f lars-fetch-news 106: 2>&1 106: awk_cmd 106: tee -a /home/reader/t/var/log/gnus_batch.log Aug 27 2001 10:16:25 Loading ~/.emacs-custom... Aug 27 2001 10:16:28 Wrote /home/reader/.newsrc-dribble Aug 27 2001 10:16:28 Reading /home/reader/.newsrc.eld... Aug 27 2001 10:16:28 Reading active file from enews.newsguy.com via nntp... Aug 27 2001 10:16:39 Reading active file via nnml... Aug 27 2001 10:16:39 Opening nnml server... Aug 27 2001 10:16:39 Aug 27 2001 10:16:39 nnml: Reading incoming mail from directory... Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Wrote /home/reader/Mail/cron_fetchall/2420 Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 nnml: Reading incoming mail (1 new)...done Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Reading active file via nnml... Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Reading active file via nnml...done Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Reading active file from archive via nnfolder... Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Opening nnfolder server on archive... Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Reading active file from archive via nnfolder... Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Reading active file from archive via nnfolder...done Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 21 new newsgroups have arrived Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Checking new news... WHERE does this come from? Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Updating marks for mail-0801... Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Bootstrapping marks for mail-0801... Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Creating mail directory /home/reader/Mail/mail-0801/ Aug 27 2001 10:16:40 Could not write to /home/reader/Mail/mail-0801/.marks ((file-error Opening output file not a directory /home/reader/Mail/mail-0801/.marks)). Continue? (yes or no) Error reading from stdin ======================================== My split hasn't been changed recently. It includes some archive code like this: [...] Begin split code (setq nnmail-split-methods '(("tests" "^Subject:.*test.*labridge") [...] tail of split code ("wgdev" "^Sender:.owner-wgdev@webglimpse") ("Edited" "^Subject: \\[ed\\]\\|^Subject: \\[ed\\]") ("misc" ""))) (setq gnus-message-archive-group '((let ((current-archive-date-string (format-time-string "%m%y" (current-time)))) (concat (if (message-news-p) "news-" "mail-") current-archive-date-string)))) ======================================== These files appeared in ~/Mail recently: -rw-r--r-- 1 reader reader 3314 Aug 27 01:02 mail-0801 -rw------- 1 reader reader 315 Aug 27 01:02 mail-0801.nov Having removed the abover files, gnus has created a spanking new directory that it shouldn't and populated it with a .marks file. Now every time I take a breath, I get bootstrapped... What's up with rampant bootstrapping?