Hi,

On 23/06/15 03:58, Murray, Gregory wrote:
Thank you very much for this information. It's extremely helpful. I must say I'm very surprised that DSpace doesn't provide full-text searching by default -- only by setting up a cron job or by running the indexing manually. Searching the full text of text-based file formats should be the default behavior out of the box, not a specialized or atypical use case.

The short answer is, I'm sure there were good reasons for this behaviour back when it was first implemented, and it has never been enough of a problem for someone to submit a pull request or file a bug report. For the record, I do agree with you that it would be great not to have to set up additional things to support fulltext search. On the other hand, the cron job gives you the flexibility to schedule the fulltext extraction whenever it suits you, since this may be a resource intense task (probably more of a problem 10 years ago than it is now -- hence our drive to look at the use cases for the modern repository).

As regards running the dspace script with sudo, now that I've done it once, is there a way for me to determine whether I've messed up the file system permissions?

You could run a recursive chown (chown -R tomcat:tomcat or whatever your user/group are) on the dspace directory to fix its permissions. If you also throw in a -c, chown will tell you about all changes it makes. Note though that chown won't follow symbolic links. So if your dspace directory contains symbolic links, you'll have to run chown on the targets of these links too.

cheers,
Andrea

-- 
Dr Andrea Schweer
IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems
The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand


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