Mel,
	Thanks for the reply.  I figured out that I don't have to run  
gnatsd in order to have send-pr etc... manipulate my local gnats  
database.  I will be using your tip about $MAIL_AGENT

> The gnats server sends email associated with various PR activity.
> A quick way to disable this is to edit the 'mail-agent'
> script in the <installdir>/libexec/gnats directory, and replace
> the line 'exec $MAIL_AGENT $@ > /dev/null' with something benign,
> such as 'exec /bin/sh -c 'umask 0; cat > /dev/null'.

It is a credit to the gnats developers that a lowly hacker (like me)  
can find the gnats-adm and the rest of my local database to be self- 
documenting.  I have been using gnats for about 4 days now and find it  
invaluable.  Please keep up your fantastic work

gnats + arch + emacs = pure joy :)

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Aidan Delaney.

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