From: Katsumi Yamaoka Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:38:58 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * gnus.texi (Example Methods): Fix description about ssh-agent. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-23.0.90~6755 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fbcbb58cbd4baf48ff31dcb86d7f5724014b1d7b;p=emacs.git * gnus.texi (Example Methods): Fix description about ssh-agent. (Indirect Functions): Fix the default value of nntp-telnet-command; remove link to connect.html. --- diff --git a/doc/misc/ChangeLog b/doc/misc/ChangeLog index 5b7883974c4..351807b418e 100644 --- a/doc/misc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/misc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2008-03-31 Katsumi Yamaoka + + * gnus.texi (Example Methods): Fix description about ssh-agent. + (Indirect Functions): Fix the default value of nntp-telnet-command; + remove link to connect.html. + 2008-03-30 Michael Albinus * dbus.texi (Synchronous Methods): New parameter TIMEOUT for diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi index a6380aea3b5..e2bb06e6f2f 100644 --- a/doc/misc/gnus.texi +++ b/doc/misc/gnus.texi @@ -13126,6 +13126,7 @@ configuration to the example above: See also @code{nntp-via-rlogin-command-switches}. Here's an example for an indirect connection: + @lisp (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "indirect" @@ -13137,6 +13138,9 @@ an indirect connection: (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-netcat))) @end lisp +This means that you have to have set up @code{ssh-agent} correctly to +provide automatic authorization, of course. + If you're behind a firewall, but have direct access to the outside world through a wrapper command like "runsocks", you could open a socksified netcat connection to the news server as follows: @@ -13148,11 +13152,6 @@ netcat connection to the news server as follows: (nntp-address "the.news.server")) @end lisp -This means that you have to have set up @code{ssh-agent} correctly to -provide automatic authorization, of course. And to get a compressed -connection, you have to have the @samp{Compression} option in the -@code{ssh} @file{config} file. - @node Creating a Virtual Server @subsection Creating a Virtual Server @@ -13702,9 +13701,7 @@ line-end-conversion, but sometimes @code{netcat} is simply not available. @item nntp-telnet-command @vindex nntp-telnet-command Command used to connect to the real @acronym{NNTP} server from the -intermediate host. The default is @samp{nc}. You can also use other -programs like @uref{http://www.imasy.or.jp/~gotoh/ssh/connect.html, -connect} instead. +intermediate host. The default is @samp{telnet}. @item nntp-telnet-switches @vindex nntp-telnet-switches