From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26081 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Virtual server/major confusion Date: 31 Oct 1999 10:03:37 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu 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 1035163356 17521 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:22:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA11792 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 13:04:51 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB31592; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 12:04:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 31 Oct 1999 12:04:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA09499 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 12:04:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (qmailr@mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA11781 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 13:04:04 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 908 invoked from network); 31 Oct 1999 18:04:01 -0000 Original-Received: from pm3-6-65.la.networkone.net (HELO satellite.local.lan) (reader@209.144.125.65) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 31 Oct 1999 18:04:01 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by satellite.local.lan (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA02436; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:03:51 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.070097 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.97) Emacs/20.3 Original-Lines: 46 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26081 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:26081 Attempting to create a second nnml server. A place to store old messages from Newsgroups now stored under ~/News/agent. I want to go thru those agentized groups and split out the messages by mnth to nnml groups of similar names. That part is not a problem. I know how to do that. However, I want to store these nnml groups in a directory on a separate partition, in this case /mnt/bak/news2nnml Following along in the info pages (Creating A Virtual Server) which say the "nnspool" example could just as well be an "nnml" example. I've created an nnml server named "news2nnml" that looks like so: (nnml "news2nnml" (nnml-directory "/mnt/bak/news2nnml") (nnml-nov-directory "/mnt/bak/news2nnml") (nnml-active-file "/mnt/bak/news2nnml")) Leaving the select method in ".gnus" like so: (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml ""))) Also tried it like so: (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "") (nnml "/mnt/bak/news2nnml"))) The first setting gives errors that say either IO error Or /mnt/bak/news2nnml is a directory The second shows all my nnml groups as before but duplicates with the name nnml+news2nnml:GROUP and nothing from /mnt/bak/news2nnml I moved 4 small nnml groups to /mnt/bak/news2nnml for this experiment. During my experimenting, gnus did see these groups at one point when pressing on the server but would not let me in them even after pressing "g" on the server to regenerate, and g in group buffer to get new stuff. Not sure what I did to cause this much to happen ... but cannot get the groups to show up again. This seems to be hopelessly confusing and might need to be explained in a simplified manner in info.