On Fri, Sep 10 2021, Bob Newell wrote: > I have rsync'd gnus for years with success. In addition to the files > already listed I sync .newsrc.eld, but that is updated infrequently. > Not strictly gnus entries, but related closely enough, I also sync > .authinfo and .msmtprc (as I use msmtp) and also .bbdb.
Thanks to everyone who replied to this thread. When you are rsyncing gnus, are you doing this while emacs is running on the different machines? Or are you starting a fresh emacs session after all the files got updated on a machine? Digging through things I realized that .newsrc.eld seems to store article marks. For example it sets gnus-newsrc-alist that holds an assoc list of read articles. However, in a running emacs session the same information is stored also in gnus-newsrc-hashtb. So the question becomes: What steps are needed to fully restart gnus while emacs is running so that internal variables such as gnus-newsrc-hashtb get re-initialized, too. -- I realized that testing all this does not require two different machines. But two instances of emacs running on one computer effectively give the same situation to play with. It seems that a running gnus session does not warn the user that another emacs instance has fiddled with files such as .newsrc.eld. Is this true?
