I'll work on trying to reproduce it.  I should also mention that I'm
running the pure ruby version of ferret since the C one doesn't
compile on freebsd yet.

On 5/2/06, David Balmain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Carl,
>
> I don't think this is a good idea. If the lock file is still open then
> there are probably changes that still need to be written to the index.
> Instead we should try and work out why this is happening. If you could
> somehow write a failing test I'm sure I'll be able to fix this.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
> On 5/3/06, Carl Youngblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm noticing that ferret-write.lck sometimes stays in my index
> > directory and throws exceptions whenever someone tries to do a search.
> >  Apparently there are some cases where ferret doesn't realize that the
> > file is old and can be deleted.  I'm wondering what the best way to
> > recover from this error is.  Am I safe just writing a cron job that
> > deletes this file if it is over 10 minutes old or something?  Is there
> > any additional cleanup that I need to do?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Carl
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