From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52571 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Owens Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: synchronizing news on multiple clients Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 12:54:30 -0700 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052775216 21232 80.91.224.249 (12 May 2003 21:33:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 21:33:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1114@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 12 23:33:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19FKsq-0005Hk-00 for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 23:30:56 +0200 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 19FKtE-0004fc-00; Mon, 12 May 2003 16:31:20 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19FJVu-0004I4-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 12 May 2003 15:03:10 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 70257 invoked by alias); 12 May 2003 20:03:06 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 70252 invoked from network); 12 May 2003 20:03:06 -0000 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (80.91.224.249) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 12 May 2003 20:03:06 -0000 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19FJTp-0007FY-00 for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 22:01:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19FJM0-0006Zq-00 for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 21:52:56 +0200 Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kzjOLNkqEh22HjtKC5Y9UuyNu6Q= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52571 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52571 I'm sure this is a fairly well-known problem, but I didn't see it in a quick trip through the manual ... I read news on my desktop machine, and use a Samba-mounted home directory to store my .newsrc and its variants. Sometimes I read news through a terminal on the Samba host and also use the same files. Gnus plays nicely with these. I would also like to use my laptop to read news. It can't mount my home directory. How do I synchronize my .newsrc files between the two gnuses? Must I manually run rsync or something like it to get the relevant files from my home directory? Could this be done automagically by gnus (what would be nice is if, when I called gnus, it would ssh over to my server, grab the files, and use them, then put them back when I quit gnus). (This isn't a problem with imap and mail, I hope - I figure the magic imap server will do the right thing.) Thanks - JDO