From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/15758 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Gardella Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Group parameters Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:21:46 -0400 Message-ID: <87zk5bw39h.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87bohrpo91.fsf@fsfe.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1346422940 26095 80.91.229.3 (31 Aug 2012 14:22:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:22:20 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Fri Aug 31 16:22:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T7S73-0004gQ-M2 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:22:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54126 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T7S71-0007bM-Ab for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38412) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T7S6u-0007bD-KY for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T7S6p-0001tO-GG for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:22:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33708) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T7S6p-0001tC-9m for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T7S6i-0004Fv-H1 for info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:22:00 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-151-201-13-138.pitt.east.verizon.net ([151.201.13.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:22:00 +0200 Original-Received: from gardellawg by pool-151-201-13-138.pitt.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:22:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-dbVV3NMTNubNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-151-201-13-138.pitt.east.verizon.net X-Archive: encrypt User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hj578MabeNnK2JR73mub0mqflhI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:15758 Archived-At: Hello all, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer writes: > ... > > If you're planning on being subscribed to the same groups on both > machines, why not take a backup and just try it out? > > For me it has worked fairly well. I'm probably syncing some stuff I > shouldn't be syncing (I still don't really know what goes into > ~/.newsrc{,.eld}), but I think the most serious problems I've had so far > is occasionally having to mark things as read that I'm sure I already > marked as read on the other computer. I think Kevin's proposed solution should be pretty safe. ~/.newsrc.eld contains mostly stuff that you probably want to sync anyway, like saving your place (which articles are read) in groups that you read, cached information of active files on news servers, etc. For maximum parallelism between the two instances, you'd probably also want to sync the ~/News directory, as this is where the Gnus agent, article cache, marks and saved articles for most groups go. Unison or some other kind of synchronization run while Gnus is not running should be fine, but there is even a safe way to do this if you are using some kind of live sync (like DropBox or SparkleShare or something) while Gnus is still running. See (info "(gnus) Slave Gnusae"); initialized as a slave, the local Gnus will act like there is another Gnus using the ~/newsrc* files and try to avoid breaking them, making its own temp newsrcs instead. -WGG -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)