* Agent is no longer working for my main news server
@ 1999-04-20 16:09 matteau
1999-06-12 2:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: matteau @ 1999-04-20 16:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
I am running pgnus 0.80 with NT emacs 20.3.1 and heavily into agent. I am
regularly connected to 3 different news servers and up to a few days ago,
the agent was working fine with all three servers.
I was having problem with one of the news server as the name servers keep
losing knowledge of my machine (a separate problem between DHCP on NT and a
DHCP server running on AIX but I digress)... I was told that I could
identify with the tornews server via authinfo and then I would be able to
access the server even if the nameservers don't know me. So I read the
documentation and ended up adding the following lines (actually only the
"(nntp-authinfo-function)") to my .gnus:
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "tornews.torolab.ibm.com"
(nntp-authinfo-function)))
Since then, I can connect to tornews and read newsgroup when I am plugged.
When I go in unplugged mode, it stills try to connect to the server for
this server only. It also no longer download this server's articles into
agent. My server buffer looks like:
{nnfolder:archive} (closed)
{nnspool:cache} (closed)
{nntp:tornews.torolab.ibm.com} (opened)
{nntp:news.software.ibm.com} (opened)
{nntp:msnews.microsoft.com} (opened)
{nndraft:} (opened)
{nntp:tornews.torolab.ibm.com} (opened)
Is it normal that tornews is there twice? What can I do to fix this?
P.S. As an aside, is this the proper way to use authinfo so that the
content of ~/.authinfo will be sent to the news server only if it requests
it?
Thanks...
Rene
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* Re: Agent is no longer working for my main news server
1999-04-20 16:09 Agent is no longer working for my main news server matteau
@ 1999-06-12 2:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1999-06-12 2:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
matteau@ca.ibm.com writes:
> Since then, I can connect to tornews and read newsgroup when I am plugged.
> When I go in unplugged mode, it stills try to connect to the server for
> this server only. It also no longer download this server's articles into
> agent.
This sounds like the Agent doesn't think it should cover the new
server. Have you done `J a' to add the new server to the Agent?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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