From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68618 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Syncing gmane group read state across multiple gnusen Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:03:03 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <84hbydkbsw.fsf@incoming.verizon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245410725 15181 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2009 11:25:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:25:25 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17045@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jun 19 13:25:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MHcDh-00070c-Fh for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:25:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MHcCh-0007Sw-2a; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:24:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MHcCf-0007Si-FY for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:24:17 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MHcCZ-00044g-RA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:24:17 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MHcD5-000187-00 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:24:43 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MHcCY-0000QI-1V for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:24:10 +0000 Original-Received: from 217.144.235.5 ([217.144.235.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:24:10 +0000 Original-Received: from sb by 217.144.235.5 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:24:10 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.144.235.5 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GY7RCODDqZuRL2J77zCcAHYrmiY= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68618 Archived-At: >>>>> Dave Goldberg : > I read IMAP and a couple nnrss feeds from Gnus in three places at > work, (On a side note: IMAP isn't a problem. It just needs a visit of the nnimap group to sync up the read numbers. All tick marks are on the articles on the IMAP server) > my primary laptop, which runs linux, a Windows XP VM (cygwin) on that > same laptop, and on a shared Unix (various flavors, many machines, > some generated somewhat on the fly) environment. In the latter case, > my home directory is in an AFS directory so the Gnus dot files are > shared. I just have to be careful to run gnus-slave if I've got > multiple instances going. I use unison to sync the dot files with the > other two home directories. I typically don't try to do merges when > there are conflicts, though. I just take the one with the most recent > timestamp. Right. But this requires that I have the exact same group subscription on all my Gnusen, doesn't it? Or can slave files be read in, even if they refer to groups you don't have, or don't refer to all of the groups you have? If the latter is the case, then this is a plan.