Thank you, kir, for your reply. Your suggestions led me in the correct direction to find the solution. I had first installed the Debian version of aspseek, built by Matt Sullivan. I got the "Database has gone away" error with the Debian version, so I thought it might have had something to do with the non-standard (non-Debian) way I've structured my http directories. I could have sworn then that I removed all the Debian aspseek related packages, then downloaded the source and compiled it my self. Alas, when I was making sure that I had really removed the Debian aspseek, I discovered that I had not.
After removing all Debian and non-Debian aspseek files and directories. I compiled aspseek from the source and installed it. I still had some trouble getting the aspseek user to be logged into MySQL, but after manually recreating it's GRANT statement, this also started working, although I don't know why, since the encrypted password didn't change. Oh, well... Everything seems to be working fine now. I've very anxious to try out aspseek and compare it to the commercial search engines we're using now. Thank you, again, for pointing me in the right direction. -Kevin Zembower >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/03/03 11:42PM >>> KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: > This is the corresponding entry in the dlog.log file: > www2:/etc# cat /var/lib/aspseek/dlog.log > Starting search daemon from ASPseek v.1.2.10 > No lastmod file - disabling lastmod-related functionality > Can't open file /var/lib/aspseek//ranksd: No such file or directory This is kinda strange: either you have paths/permissions problems, or (less probably) IncrementalCitations option is set differently in aspseek.conf and searchd.conf. Please investigate the issue. Have you compiled ASPseek from scratch, or used RPM, or have both RPM and compiled-by-yourself versions installed? If you have compiled it yourself, what flags to configure have you used? If you have installed it both ways, I recommend you to either uninstall RPM or do 'make uninstall'. > Started accepting queries on port 12345 > Error: MySQL server has gone away in <SELECT word_id FROM wordurl WHERE word = :1> It also makes sense to look into MySQL log files, and probably run mysiamchk utility.
