Re: server connection broken - issue reconsidered, new info

Re: server connection broken - issue reconsidered, new info

[Ronald Fischer]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai   =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) writes:

> Ronald Fischer <rovf@feriasonline.pt.invalid> writes:
> > Gnus talks to the news server via nntp protocol on my internet connection,
> > while ssh would just open a secure remote shell to some target system,
> > right?
> 
> You can tell ssh to redirect a port.  So connecting to port X on
> localhost actually makes a connection to port Y on a different host,
> thanks to ssh port forwarding.

Are there any circumstances where Gnus is magically using ssh, without
me telling this *explicitly* in .gnus?

Ronald
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Re: server connection broken - issue reconsidered, new info

[Ronald Fischer]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann wrote in message news:<vafadn7fg8k.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>...
> But I think it's pretty safe to say that if you haven't tried to set
> up this ssh thing, then Gnus will not do the ssh thing.

Well, this leaves as most likely explanation, that the News server itself
closes the connection after a period of inactivity.

I have now, thanks to the previous posts, the following near perfect solution,
that, if I see that Gnus "hangs", I hit a key which reopens the server. But
Netscape Messenger obviously does this automatically, so I would be interested
to know if I can teach this to Gnus too. In other words, is there a hook
which is executed before *every* access of the News server (but not for
gnus-close-server and gnus-check-server)? I could then call there my
function for re-opening the server, which currently looks like this
(simply copied over from the friendly soul who posted it in this ng):

(defun retry-news ()
        "Close news server then try to reopen every 30 seconds until connection 
        (interactive)
        (gnus-close-server gnus-current-select-method)
        (while (not (gnus-check-server)) (sleep-for 30) ))

Or is there a better way to achieve my goal?

Ronald