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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor 25 network devices or servers for free with OpManager! OpManager is web-based network management software that monitors network devices and physical & virtual servers, alerts via email & sms for fault. Monitor 25 devices for free with no restriction. Download now http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/292181274;119417398;o _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
