From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49088 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnoo bug - unable to open secondary nntp server when offline Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:13:40 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042348458 1668 80.91.224.249 (12 Jan 2003 05:14:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 05:14:18 +0000 (UTC) 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 18XaRr-0000QY-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 06:14:15 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18XaRn-0001us-00; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:14:11 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:15:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA27137 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 23:14:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 41265 invoked by alias); 12 Jan 2003 05:13:53 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 41260 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2003 05:13:53 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 12 Jan 2003 05:13:53 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18XaX8-0004yp-00 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 06:19:42 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.64.160.236 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1042348782 19146 198.64.160.236 (12 Jan 2003 05:19:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jan 2003 05:19:42 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090011 (Oort Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.2 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HyVpSAw3U6+9s8knBTZSqoavjbQ= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49088 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49088 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com writes: > >> I currently have three nntp servers agentized. > > Mee too. :-) > >> When I'm offline, I can open any group on the primary server. When I >> try to open a group on a secondary server, I get a directory not found >> error. I've traced the problem to the backend configuration but I'm >> now stuck. > > Hm... That can be difficult to debug. > >> The problem appears to be that nnoo-state-alist doesn't have the >> correct value for nnagent-directory on the secondary servers. I've >> included a portion of nnoo-state-alist to demonstrate. > > [...] > >> My primary server is news.randori.com. It's nnagent-directory is >> set correctly so I can view the agentized contents of this server. >> One of my secondary servers is news.ev1.net. I can't open its >> groups because nnagent-directory is set to the nnml default >> "~/Mail/". > > Huh. Do you have anything special set in the select method for this > group? It kinda sounds like the nnoo structures aren't getting > initialized -- that might be the symptom of having several servers > with the same name, come to think of it... No. The select method is simply (nntp "news.ev1.net"). The fun thing to remember is that this works fine with I'm plugged in. I know that this will sound foolish but isn't the server's name its host name? The closest that I came to understanding it was that, while initializing the primary server, the nnoo-state-alist has a structure that contained a list of symbols such as (... (nnagent-directory) ...). After initializing that server, the list of symbols looks like (... (nnagent-directory . nnagent-directory) ...). To be honest, I'm not sure if this has anything to do with that I am observing. Sorry, it has been several days since I looked so I can't be very specific. Thanks, Kevin