From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Subject: Bare minimum for batch fetching
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:31:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1zo10k4as.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> (raw)
Experimenting with some different setups for downloading news.
I tried to setup the barest command line for batch fetching like this:
emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l ~/.gnus.el -f gnus-agent-batch
Where my real file is .gnus and the .gnus.el loaded is just a little
code to tell gnus where its load files are and say (gnus-agentize)
cat .gnus.el
(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/gnus/lisp")
(gnus-agentize)
This is to avoid loading all kinds of requires and other guff found in
site-start.el, .gnus or .emacs
When I run that command, gnus doesn't know about ~/.authinfo found in
~/ and wants to prompt for username and password
(an authenticating nntpserver), then comes lots of other stuff it
doesn't know about:
news > emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l ~/.gnus.el -f gnus-agent-batch
Reading /usr/local/news/.newsrc.eld...
Reading active file from news via nntp...
NNTP (news) user name: xxxxxx
NNTP (reader@news) password: xxxxxx
NNTP (reader@news) password: .NNTP (reader@news) password: ..NNTP
(reader@news) password: ...NNTP (reader@news) password: ....NNTP
(reader@news) password: .....NNTP (reader@news) password:
......NNTP (reader@news) password: .......NNTP (reader@news)
password: ........Cannot read partial active file from nntp server.
Opening nntp server on news...
Opening nntp server on news...done
No new newsgroups
Checking new news...
Opening nndoc server on gnus-help...
Opening nndoc server on gnus-help...done
Opening nndraft server...
Opening nndraft server...done
Checking new news...done
(The prompt doesn't come back with out ^c)
And nothing is downloaded.
Batch fetching works if I load site-start.el .emacs .gnus but I wanted
to avoid loading all that guff and concomitant unexpected problems
from odd things being loaded or not found etc.
I wondered if anyone knows what the bare necessities are to run a
functional batch command? Maybe load gnus librarires or something?
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