* Help: Multiple News servers.
@ 1996-02-23 22:30 Shane Holder
1996-02-24 7:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Shane Holder @ 1996-02-23 22:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
I now have reason to use the multiple server stuff in gnus (jeez this
is a cool news reader). Here's my situation.
I have a standard nntp server that I can telnet to from the machine I
run gnus on, no problems there.
I also have several other news servers that are behind a firewall, and
I have an account on that firewall, so I run proxy servers going to
the multiple newsservers, and listen on different port numbers, for my
incoming connection from my gnus machine. Something like.
<gumby> -> <pokey> <- Standard nntp server
\
\
-> <Mr_T> -> <cindy> <- nntp server behind firewall (Mr_T)
\
\
-> <rodman> <- nntp server behind firewall (Mr_T)
gumby is where gnus is run.
Mr_T listens on 8888, and redirects to cindy:119.
Mr_T listens on 8889, and redirects to rodman:119.
The first thing I ran across was gnus-group-browse-foreign-server, but
it didn't seem to want to allow me to specify a port.
The next thing I found was the Server edit buffer, and after a few
attempts, I was able to connect to cindy, and rodman, and get a list
of groups to subscribe to. Both servers are set up as follows with
differing port numbers.
(nntp "Mr_T" (nntp-port-number 8888))
I'd rather use the secondary select method for these other servers,
but I can't figure out how to get a list of news groups, the news
group stuff seems to only apply to gnus-select-method.
So, how can I list groups on these other two servers without using the
server buffer (it gives all groups, and doesn't filter the ones to
which I'm already subscribed).
I also had trouble posting to groups subscribed to with the
browse-server stuff, I think it tried to post to the
gnus-select-method server, and not the one I had browsed, and the
group doesn't exist on the primary server.
Thanks,
Shane
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* Re: Help: Multiple News servers.
1996-02-23 22:30 Help: Multiple News servers Shane Holder
@ 1996-02-24 7:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1996-02-24 7:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
Shane Holder <holder@convex.com> writes:
> The next thing I found was the Server edit buffer, and after a few
> attempts, I was able to connect to cindy, and rodman, and get a list
> of groups to subscribe to. Both servers are set up as follows with
> differing port numbers.
>
> (nntp "Mr_T" (nntp-port-number 8888))
>
> I'd rather use the secondary select method for these other servers,
> but I can't figure out how to get a list of news groups, the news
> group stuff seems to only apply to gnus-select-method.
Well, this all depends a bit on what your `gnus-read-active-file' and
`gnus-check-new-newsgroups' variables are. If `gnus-read-active-file'
is t, then you can just plonk your virtual servers into
`gnus-seconary-select-methods' and Gnus will subscribe you (or not) to
all new groups from these servers.
If `gnus-read-active-file' is nil or `some', then you can set
`gnus-check-new-newsgroups' to a list of select methods to query for
new groups.
> I also had trouble posting to groups subscribed to with the
> browse-server stuff, I think it tried to post to the
> gnus-select-method server, and not the one I had browsed, and the
> group doesn't exist on the primary server.
Use `C-u C-c C-c' when posting to post with the same server as you
read the group from.
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