news server name change

news server name change

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

The news server that I use changed its name from 
news.motzarella.org to eternal-september.org.  And I made the 
corresponding change in the .authinfo file.  But apparently gnus 
is trying to connect to the old server name.

Where else should I be correcting the entries and preserve my 
subscriptions and stuff?

 sivaram
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Re: news server name change

[Joe Fineman]

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:

> Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net> writes:
>
>> groups, and that was a long agony the first time.  So I just
>> changed the two references to the old name in my files.  The result
>> was that when I first logged in I found all the groups were empty;
>> but I could live with that.  Now everything is fine.
>
> so what changes did you make and where?

In ~/.emacs:
  (setq gnus-nntp-server "news.eternal-september.org")
In ~/.authinfo:
  (machine news.eternal-september.org login joe_f force yes password *********)
-- 
---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

||:  The symptoms of actually being right when everyone else is  :||
||:  wrong are indistinguishable from those of paranoia.         :||

Re: news server name change

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net> writes:

[snipped 15 lines] 
> groups, and that was a long agony the first time.  So I just 
  changed
> the two references to the old name in my files.  The result was 
  that
> when I first logged in I found all the groups were empty; but I 
>could
> live with that.  Now everything is fine.

so what changes did you make and where?

 sivaram
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Re: news server name change

[Joe Fineman]

Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> writes:

> Karl Kleinpaste <invalid@kleinpaste.org> wrote:
>
>>> Where else should I be correcting the entries and preserve my
>>> subscriptions and stuff?
>
>> Look in .newsrc.eld and .gnus for references to the old name.
>
> And be careful if the name change came with a renumbering of
> the server's article database.

So I was warned by Motzarella; but I did not understand the advice
about *how* careful.  It seemed I would have to resubscribe to all my
groups, and that was a long agony the first time.  So I just changed
the two references to the old name in my files.  The result was that
when I first logged in I found all the groups were empty; but I could
live with that.  Now everything is fine.
-- 
---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

||:  All men would be cowards if they durst.  :||

Re: news server name change

[Tim Landscheidt]

Karl Kleinpaste <invalid@kleinpaste.org> wrote:

>> Where else should I be correcting the entries and preserve my
>> subscriptions and stuff?

> Look in .newsrc.eld and .gnus for references to the old name.

And be careful if the name change came with a renumbering of
the server's article database.

Tim

Re: news server name change

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:
> Where else should I be correcting the entries and preserve my
> subscriptions and stuff?

Look in .newsrc.eld and .gnus for references to the old name.