From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/977 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How to handle when a server is down? Date: 26 Aug 2002 13:31:48 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <87bs7ucktk.fsf@thweeble.telefunken.dyn.ml.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667824 9190 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:37:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:37:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:26 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!cyclone.swbell.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: dmaster@DMASTER-LAP User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1117 Original-Lines: 17 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1117 Tue Jan 17 17:28:26 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:977 Archived-At: >>>>> Kai Großjohann writes: > Recent Oorts see that the server is down and ask me whether I want to > switch that server to offline mode. How does it determine that it's down? Via the timeout? > This seems to do just what you need: the server isn't accessed in > that session. Switching servers into online mode can be done from > the *Server* buffer. This sounds like what I'm after. -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA