From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56660 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Greiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus Agent saves only some group lists Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:30:37 -0600 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078939903 27261 80.91.224.253 (10 Mar 2004 17:31:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:31:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5199@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Mar 10 18:31:26 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B17YD-0008TY-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:31:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1B17Xj-0000DR-00; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:30:55 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1B17Xb-0000DL-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:30:48 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B5F3A0034 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:30:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B17Xa-0002eW-00 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:30:46 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-66-134-21-51.hstqtx02.covad.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1078939846 10199 66.134.21.51 (10 Mar 2004 17:30:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:30:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:utxfmBLKo1t/5JxoQVkgPgkAc7o= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56660 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56660 Michael Schierl writes: > Kevin Greiner writes: > >> Michael Schierl writes: >> >>> So the problem is most likely not that the stored data is not used, >>> but that the data is not stored properly. >> >> Try adding some of your nttp servers to the list of secondary servers >> to see if I am right. > > Hmm. In my .gnus.el is > > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.individual.de")) > (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.gmane.org")) > (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.gnus.org")) > (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nntp "news.arcor.de")) > > and > > gnus-secondary-select-methods's value is > ((nntp "news.arcor.de") > (nntp "news.gnus.org") > (nntp "news.gmane.org")) > > is there another list of secondary servers? Unfortunitely no. So much for my nice simple theory. > Could it be some problem that, a few days ago, i commented out all the > secondary servers because of connection problems (which, surprising > me, did not prevent Gnus from contacting them) and then later > commented them in again? Can I force Gnus to reread the active files > of these 2 servers without losing any of the group contents? There's probably better but this is what I've found. If you type 'b' in the group buffer, gnus will check for bogus newsgroups. In the process, it will read the active files for your native and secondary servers. If gnus-have-read-active-file is non-nil, the check bogus groups command will do nothing so make sure that it is nil (set it if necessary). BTW, when you do 'A A' to list the active groups, gnus has logic in place to prevent the agent from saving the new active file. Strange. Kevin