From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/10305 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Synchronizing multiple computers Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:32:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87odaws3fs.fsf@arcor.de> References: <87ir1d7mye.fsf@hbox.dyndns.org> <87bq75669s.fsf@arcor.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202167996 22334 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2008 23:33:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 23:33:16 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 05 00:33:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JMAoj-0000A7-87 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:33:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMAoG-0000G2-Og for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:33:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMAo7-00009X-Rr for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:32:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JMAo5-00008o-Rr for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:32:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JMAo5-00008g-KT for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JMAo5-0000Wj-MF for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JMAo0-0006Ga-Hq for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:32:52 +0000 Original-Received: from dslb-082-083-041-068.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.41.68]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:32:52 +0000 Original-Received: from de_bb by dslb-082-083-041-068.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:32:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-082-083-041-068.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XfKibHIPizuvjUtOuOTnynN3/QE= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:10305 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > I'd suggest to get rid of the shell script and do it in elisp[1]. > Within Emacs, the values of `gnus-directory', `message-directory', > `gnus-startup-file', ... are available, you can use them in the sync > function. I'd guess that you don't even need to bother about frobbing > `gnus-home-directory' and `message-directory'. Just rsync ~/.newsrc*, > ~/Mail and ~/News. Or am I missing something? I've revised the wiki page and posted new code which works without a shell script: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusSync Comments/Corrections are appreciated (or simply edit the page - it's a wiki, after all :-) ). -David