From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64914 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: closing all inactive server connections Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:54:58 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184097402 25101 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2007 19:56:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:56:42 +0000 (UTC) To: Ding Mailing List Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13424@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jul 10 21:56:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I8Lp9-0007LD-JZ for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:56:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1I8LoE-0002Iv-Sw; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:55:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1I8LoC-0002IV-UH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I8LoA-0005HX-Se for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: from blockstar.com ([170.224.69.95] helo=mail.blockstar.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1I8Lo9-0005TV-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:55:37 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz.local (unknown [69.25.70.4]) by mail.blockstar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404103E8098 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:58:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: Ding Mailing List In-Reply-To: (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:59:40 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.0.96 (darwin) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64914 Archived-At: On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:59:40 -0400 Ted Zlatanov wrote: TZ> Very often, my company's VPN will disconnect and my server connections TZ> will hang. I have to manually go into the server buffer and hit `C' on TZ> each server to close the connection, then C-g to cancel the ensuing TZ> timeout. I have 8 servers (NNTP and IMAP) so this is slow and annoying. TZ> My questions are: TZ> 1) is there a way to close all the server connections without the TZ> connection timeout? I should mention that I know about gnus-server-close-all-servers, but it doesn't do all the server connections. For some reason the variable gnus-inserted-opened-servers is an incomplete list after a VPN outage. TZ> 2) can I set the time a connection becomes inactive (so it needs to be TZ> reopened) to a few seconds? It seems to be several minutes right now. TZ> Perhaps this is not a Gnus attribute but a system-level TCP setting, I TZ> don't know how Gnus and Emacs manage TCP connections. I still haven't figured this one out. Thanks Ted