Agent and remote servers.

Agent and remote servers.

[Lars Balker Rasmussen]

How is this supposed to work?  

I tried adding a remote server (sunsite.auc.dk), using 'J a' in the
server buffer, because I didn't want Gnus to open up a connection to
my ISDN router just because I fumble and press g while unplugged.

But with emacs.ding subscribed plugged 'J s' will give:

	Fetching headers for nntp+sunsite.auc.dk:emacs.ding...
	Creating directory: no such file or directory, d:/News/agent/nntp/sunsite.auc.dk/nntp+sunsite/auc/dk:emacs

Surely remote servers are supposed to work with the agent?

(Yes, I'm using win95 at the moment, though I finally convinced
Solaris to install on my home machine.)
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen                                                 "No."

Re: Agent and remote servers.

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On 21 Dec 1997 00:22:26 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@image.dk> said:

Lars> I tried adding a remote server (sunsite.auc.dk), using 'J a' in
Lars> the server buffer, because I didn't want Gnus to open up a
Lars> connection to my ISDN router just because I fumble and press g
Lars> while unplugged.

Have you had any trouble with gnus taking a really long time if your
initial ISDN network connection is down when you do a 'g' or even
start gnus?  I get a really long delay that is far longer than it
takes my ISDN box to come up (ie, on the order of a minute plus rather 
than 5 seconds like every other think does that accesses the
network).  What I'm not sure of is weather its XEmacs related or Gnus
related...  I was just about to try a (setq debug-on-quit t) and give 
it a test...  Well, my WAN light is off, why not now...

please wait...

Grr...  Ever had a problem when entering the backtrace debugger takes
*way* too long (ie, never returns?)

please wait...

Uh, never mind...  Can't get a backtrace for some reason...  Sigh...
Well, don't never mind if you have similar problems, at least tell me
you do!

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Re: Agent and remote servers.

[Lars Balker Rasmussen]

Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> Well, don't never mind if you have similar problems, at least tell me
> you do!

Uh, not really.  If the nntp or pop server is down, it will spend a
long time before timing out, but I suppose that's normal.  

Have you considered running FSF Emacs for your Gnus'ing for a while to
see if you can reproduce the problem?
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen                                                 "No."

Re: Agent and remote servers.

[Francois Felix Ingrand]

Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@image.dk> writes:

> 
> Surely remote servers are supposed to work with the agent?

Well... I am not sure... anybody has managed to get a remote server running
under agent? I have the same problem than you...

> (Yes, I'm using win95 at the moment, though I finally convinced
> Solaris to install on my home machine.)

Solaris is a great OS for x86 machine... I use it at home too.

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Off topic : Solaris x86

[David Hedbor]

Francois Felix Ingrand <felix@laas.fr> writes:

> Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@image.dk> writes:
>
> > (Yes, I'm using win95 at the moment, though I finally convinced
> > Solaris to install on my home machine.)
> 
> Solaris is a great OS for x86 machine... I use it at home too.

Sorry for this off-topic message, but does anyone have experience of
Solaris x86 on a dual+ CPU machine?

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Re: Off topic : Solaris x86

[Lars Balker Rasmussen]

David Hedbor <david@hedbor.org> writes:
> Sorry for this off-topic message, but does anyone have experience of
> Solaris x86 on a dual+ CPU machine?

I'm sure there are people with this experience :-)

Several (pages of) x86 SMP systems have been tested with Solaris 2.6
according to the documentation.
-- 
Lars Balker Rasmussen                                                 "No."

Re: Off topic : Solaris x86

[Jim Meyering]

David Hedbor <david@hedbor.org> writes:
| Francois Felix Ingrand <felix@laas.fr> writes:
|
| > Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@image.dk> writes:
| >
| > > (Yes, I'm using win95 at the moment, though I finally convinced
| > > Solaris to install on my home machine.)
| >
| > Solaris is a great OS for x86 machine... I use it at home too.
|
| Sorry for this off-topic message, but does anyone have experience of
| Solaris x86 on a dual+ CPU machine?

I'm using 5.5.1 on a dual Ppro/200 HP Vectra.  Pretty nice, but be
sure to get/install the recommended patches.  I'd rather be using
Linux, of course, but some quick and dirty benchmarks (building the
code I work on both on this box and on a colleague's box running
Linux with glibc1) show no appreciable performance improvement
in switching.

Re: Agent and remote servers.

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@image.dk> writes:

> But with emacs.ding subscribed plugged 'J s' will give:
> 
> 	Fetching headers for nntp+sunsite.auc.dk:emacs.ding...
> 	Creating directory: no such file or directory, d:/News/agent/nntp/sunsite.auc.dk/nntp+sunsite/auc/dk:emacs

`(setq debug-on-error t)', repeat the bug and mail me the resulting
backtrace.

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