Andrea,

Thank you for the clarification about the default behavior, and for the chown 
advice.

Thanks,
Greg


On Jun 23, 2015, at 12:02 AM, Andrea Schweer wrote:

> 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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