From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/32745 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dsg@world.std.com (David S. Goldberg) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Starting a second Gnus -- dangerous? Date: 04 Oct 2000 12:47:09 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168976 21488 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:56:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB3BD0522 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:51:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAC02088; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:47:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 04 Oct 2000 11:47:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@66-209.196.61.interliant.com [209.196.61.66] (may be forged)) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA04736 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 11:46:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D633D0522 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:47:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA26029 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:47:11 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (linus.mitre.org [129.83.10.1]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA29322 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:46:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from blackbird.mitre.org (blackbird.mitre.org [129.83.10.221]) by linus.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA05278 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:47:10 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from dsg@localhost) by blackbird.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA25329; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:47:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: blackbird.mitre.org: dsg set sender to dsg@mitre.org using -f Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List X-Face: GUaHTH@nS>[7,ME@-gYZ4#Wl{z"99k@[[Y8AcP0x1paqu.,z9,XSV1WI>{q3f6^e5(zrit <4fV&VHhmE`uidRqtmG27;si9&r;#KSF~E#$%W8w(xdp)H4tW=\2XOk~3=@oGqqpj;m4xf Ow;y26396&,34@9#~4;@*S;E0cq"LM9N(us4P%F(Nxis'Vvfm9?KufH;:Q$dMa-QWGLR&K d0`LJZE8xb*>^yN>b]_NcU:E=Zn\1=#/(OS2 In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32745 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:32745 > On 03 Oct 2000 18:10:42 -0400, prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) said: >>> Suppose that the next time my running Gnus hasn't saved all changes >>> before I go home and it happens again? Paul> You might add a hook function to create a lock file when Gnus Paul> starts, signaling an error if it already exists. Add another Paul> hook for when Gnus exists to delete the file. > And if it detects the other, remote session and exits, how does one > then get to use Gnus? How can you safely terminate the remote running > Gnus session? If it was reading news/mail and hadn't saved its buffers > then simply "kill"ing it would potentiall lose a lot of your state. Presumably gnus-slave would still work. My home directory at work is in AFS space and I can run xemacs and gnus on any number of machines. Thus, I've got in the habit of only running gnus from my desktop workstation and gnus-slave anywhere else. This hasn't seemed to cause any harm even if I don't actually have gnus running on my desktop when I run gnus-slave. That is, the next time I run gnus on my desktop, it finds the slave .newsrcs and incorporates their info. Maybe I'm just getting lucky. -- Dave Goldberg dsg@world.std.com