Thank you, Matt, for pointing that out. Unfortunately, it's not going smoothly. I think that I had found your packages and tried to install them manually with dpkg, instead of through apt-get. I'm still so new to Debian, I'm not sure what difference this makes, if at all, or if I did it correctly. The aspseek package ended up in /usr/local/aspseek, with directories like etc/ below that. I got this system working, however.
I tried to follow your directions then. I removed with 'apt-get remove' four aspseek packages; aspseek, aspseek-common, aspseek-cgi-common and aspseek-libmysqldb. Then I reinstalled aspseek using apt-get, with sources.list modified to include the line you provided. That installed three packages, aspseek, aspseek-common and aspseek-libmysqldb. But, things like /etc/aspseek/tables, stopwords/ were empty. There was no /etc/aspseek/aspseek.conf file, either. I populated these files and directories from the backups I had from my first installation, and now index seems to be working fine. 'index -S' returns a valid-looking number. However, my searchd still isn't running. Remember, the start of this long story was the search for an init.d file to start searchd on bootup. I can't find a searchd or aspseek init.d file. The only searchd file I can find is in /usr/sbin/searchd, which I believe is the searchd binary. Did I do something wrong? Am I missing something? Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions. -Kevin >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/27/03 04:14PM >>> Kevin, There are debian packages for stable available from the ASPseek website. Adding the following source to your /etc/apt/sources.list should do the trick (make sure to 'apt-get update' after adding the new source, or if you prefer to use dselect run an 'Update' from the main menu): deb http://www.aspseek.org/pkg/deb/aspseek-libmysqlclient10 woody aspseek ASPseek is currently included in the testing/unstable distributions but didn't make into stable due to time constraints (woody had entered freeze before the packages were release stable). An init script which starts searchd is included in the package. If you have difficulty deciding which of the packages available from the above source you should install then this list is the appropriate place to ask for help. Matt. On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 at 09:22:26 -0500, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote: > Has anyone worked up a version of the startup script which will work on the Debian > distro? I hate reinventing wheels. This is the script which would go in /etc/init.d. > The one distributed with aspseek seems to be for RedHat, I think. It uses > 'start-stop-daemon' which is missing from a Debian system. > > I searched the forum on 'startup' or 'init.d' but didn't turn up any promising > leads. [I also posted this question there, before reading that it was just a shadow > of this list. After I dope-slapped myself, I'm posting this here. Hope it doesn't > get duplicated.] Debian stable doesn't seem to know about aspseek. > > If no one answers, I'll go ahead and start work on one. I'll post it here when I get > it working. > > Thanks for your help. > > -Kevin Zembower > > ----- > E. Kevin Zembower > Unix Administrator > Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs > 111 Market Place, Suite 310 > Baltimore, MD 21202 > 410-659-6139 >
