Re: Gnus of emacs21 not reading NNTPSERVER on Fink/Mac OS 10.4.3

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Tue, Dec 06 2005, Hans Aberg wrote:

> I cannot tell whether this is a problem in emacs21, or in the Fink
> version of for Mac OS 10.4.3:
>
> I can get emacs21 to read the NNTPSERVER variable if I type (in  uxterm/bash):
>   env NNTPSERVER=<newsserver> emacs21 &
> but I cannot get emacs21 to read it otherwise, for example, by putting
>   NNTPSERVER=<newsserver>
> into ".profile" and ".bashrc", nor does typing
>   NNTPSERVER=<newsserver>
>   emacs21 &
> work.

This is not a bug in Emacs or Gnus.  You must export the variable to
the child process (= emacs21 in your case) of the shell.  See the bash
manual:

,----[ (info "(bash)Bourne Shell Builtins") ]
| `export'
|           export [-fn] [-p] [NAME[=VALUE]]
|      Mark each NAME to be passed to child processes in the environment.
`----

> If I make a ".gnus" file with say
>   (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news1.comhem.se"))

I'd prefer this way anyhow.

Bye, Reiner.
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