From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/10227 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Synchronizing multiple computers Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:32:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87y7a94jcv.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 1201563176 4676 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2008 23:32:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:32:56 +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 Jan 29 00:33:16 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 1JJdTR-0004gX-D4 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:33:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJdT0-0003xn-IO for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:32:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJdSy-0003wJ-PJ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:32:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJdSx-0003vV-Uo for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:32:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJdSx-0003vG-PF for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:32:39 -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 1JJdSx-0007M2-B9 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:32:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JJdSn-0000Ak-L4 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:32:29 +0000 Original-Received: from dslb-082-083-043-198.pools.arcor-ip.net ([82.83.43.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:32:29 +0000 Original-Received: from de_bb by dslb-082-083-043-198.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:32:29 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 52 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-082-083-043-198.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4oJIH5W5Yl9g+pt86AUdTNg753E= 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:10227 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > ,----[ (info "(gnus)Various Various") ] > | `gnus-home-directory' > | All Gnus file and directory variables will be initialized from this > | variable, which defaults to `~/'. > `---- > > ,----[ (info "(message)Various Message Variables") ] > | `message-directory' > | Directory used by many mailey things. The default is `~/Mail/'. > | All other mail file variables are derived from `message-directory'. > `---- > > | but I guess it does no harm to set them all explicitly. > > It's confusing and error-prone, IMHO. I remember I was confused that there exists 'gnus-home-directory' as well as 'gnus-directory' where both doc strings more or less say that everything will be derived from them. I see now that in gnus.el gnus-directory is set to gnus-home-directory (except when the SAVEDIR environment variable is set...). In gnus-registry.el, 'gnus-dribble-directory' (which, granted, is usually nil) has precedence over 'gnus-home-directory' for setting 'gnus-registry-cache-file'. OK, I suppose I'm nitpicking here... > | rsync -e "ssh -l name" -auvzp workcomputer:./Gnus ~/. > > Only ancient versions of rsync don't use ssh by default. OK. > I'd suggest to get rid of the shell script and do it in elisp[1]. Yes. This setup 'evolved' before I became more familiar with elisp... > 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? Since I guess I am only using ~10% of Gnus' functionality I wouldn't know for sure. I guess syncing the registry file isn't really necessary? > Nice idea. Maybe adding a prompt "Do you want to sync from ... to > ...?" would make sense. Yes. I'll revise that page as soon as I have time. Thanks for your comments. -David