* Moving News and Mail
@ 2000-01-17 2:43 Harry Putnam
2000-01-18 17:51 ` Jaap-Henk Hoepman
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From: Harry Putnam @ 2000-01-17 2:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
Group,
I need a little advice and a kind of general subject.
I want to move Gnus' News and Mail directories to a new home on a
different disk and in web space. There to setup some "webglimpse"
tools and have full searching in several ways.
I already know how to setup the webglimpse tools etc but what worries
me is the part of setting new directories for News and Mail.. I
realize there are variables that control where gnus writes its files
etc.
But what will happen when I redo those Variables and start writing to
the new directories containing thousands of old messages. Will gnus
just continue without a stutter or will there be a sort of start over
of some kind? Is there some kind of proceedure I need to follow?
Webglimpse will be writing files in the gnus directories too.
.glimpse* files and other control files etc. They can be contained
inside a subdirectory for neatness, but will these directories bother
the unborn Oort inside of pgnus?
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* Re: Moving News and Mail
2000-01-17 2:43 Moving News and Mail Harry Putnam
@ 2000-01-18 17:51 ` Jaap-Henk Hoepman
2000-01-19 13:00 ` Harry Putnam
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From: Jaap-Henk Hoepman @ 2000-01-18 17:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
On 16 Jan 2000 18:43:02 -0800 Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> But what will happen when I redo those Variables and start writing to
> the new directories containing thousands of old messages. Will gnus
> just continue without a stutter or will there be a sort of start over
> of some kind? Is there some kind of proceedure I need to follow?
I've just moved all my old mail directories to a new location, changed the
required variables (nnfolder-directory and nnml-directory), and copied the
.newsrc.eld file to my new home directory, and it all worked without problem.
> Webglimpse will be writing files in the gnus directories too.
> .glimpse* files and other control files etc. They can be contained
> inside a subdirectory for neatness, but will these directories bother
> the unborn Oort inside of pgnus?
>From personal experience I can tell that gnus believes all/most stuff inside a
mail folder to be mail. If you create new files or directories, gnus may think
it is a new group or something. I found out the hard way when I tried to store
both nnfolder and nnml files in a single directory. Ouch! I'm not sure whether
certain filenames (e.g. starting with a dot) are ignored.
Jaap-Henk
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* Re: Moving News and Mail
2000-01-18 17:51 ` Jaap-Henk Hoepman
@ 2000-01-19 13:00 ` Harry Putnam
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From: Harry Putnam @ 2000-01-19 13:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl> writes:
> On 16 Jan 2000 18:43:02 -0800 Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> > But what will happen when I redo those Variables and start writing to
> > the new directories containing thousands of old messages. Will gnus
> > just continue without a stutter or will there be a sort of start over
> > of some kind? Is there some kind of proceedure I need to follow?
>
> I've just moved all my old mail directories to a new location, changed the
> required variables (nnfolder-directory and nnml-directory), and copied the
> .newsrc.eld file to my new home directory, and it all worked without problem.
Good to hear ... thanks
>
> > Webglimpse will be writing files in the gnus directories too.
> > .glimpse* files and other control files etc. They can be contained
> > inside a subdirectory for neatness, but will these directories bother
> > the unborn Oort inside of pgnus?
> From personal experience I can tell that gnus believes all/most
> stuff inside a > mail folder to be mail. If you create new files or
> directories, gnus may think > it is a new group or something. I found
> out the hard way when I tried to store > both nnfolder and nnml files
> in a single directory. Ouch! I'm not sure whether > certain filenames
> (e.g. starting with a dot) are ignored.
That would have been from both backends using the same gnus control
files I think. In my case I don't think gnus will care that a
separate subdir is in there long as it isn't in gnus control files
like 'active' or '.overview'
I haven't done this yet so don't know for sure.
Thanks for the input.
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