X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=remoteusage%2Fold.mdwn;h=0fc0e10bcd17167c99fcb5142de2995f40e92165;hb=219490b75a85ca18d449168575a0c7538e71612e;hp=72ba467204fca6f7b0a7fe41faa6ca9551d90023;hpb=fbd0bc7987c1425e5b0ec5c0054db67108dd40e7;p=notmuch-wiki diff --git a/remoteusage/old.mdwn b/remoteusage/old.mdwn index 72ba467..0fc0e10 100644 --- a/remoteusage/old.mdwn +++ b/remoteusage/old.mdwn @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ [[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]] #Using notmuch remotely# +(the "old" page, see also [[new|remoteusage]] page) + ##Why?## -It is hard to keep nomuch tags in sync across multiple instances of +It is hard to keep notmuch tags in sync across multiple instances of notmuch, on multiple computers. Though you can do this with "notmuch dump" and "notmuch restore", it is often preferable to be able to use notmuch on a remote computer as if it were present on a local @@ -31,7 +33,7 @@ optional, or allow screen or tmux to be used instead. server. [Here](http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/152) is a good page on how to set it up. -5. a reasonably fast connection. (This isn't really *neccessary*, but +5. a reasonably fast connection. (This isn't really *necessary*, but if your connection is too slow, this won't be very pleasant to use, and certainly won't seem transparent.) @@ -56,35 +58,35 @@ future calls can reuse the socket. NOTMUCH_REMOTE_BIN="notmuch" DTACH="/usr/bin/dtach" DTACH_SOCKET="${SOCKET_DIR}/dtach.socket" - + check_for_socket_dir () { [ -d "${SOCKET_DIR}" ] } - + check_socket_dir_owner_and_perm () { [ "$(stat -c %U ${SOCKET_DIR})" = "$(whoami)" ] && [ "$(stat -c %a ${SOCKET_DIR})" = "700" ] } - + create_socket_dir () { mkdir "${SOCKET_DIR}" chmod 700 "${SOCKET_DIR}" } - + check_for_socket () { [ -S "${SSH_SOCKET}" ] } - + start_socket () { dtach_command="${DTACH} -n ${DTACH_SOCKET} ${SSH_BIN} -M -S ${SSH_SOCKET} ${USER}@${SSH_HOST}" command -v ${DTACH} &>/dev/null && ${dtach_command} } - + notmuch_run () { if check_for_socket_dir; then @@ -103,9 +105,9 @@ future calls can reuse the socket. printf -v ARGS "%q " "$@" $SSH_BIN -S $SSH_SOCKET $USER@$SSH_HOST $NOTMUCH_REMOTE_BIN ${ARGS} } - + notmuch_run "$@" - + Save this to a file, "remote-notmuch.sh", in your path. Now you can run "remote-notmuch.sh new". You can call the script