> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Douglas Kline wrote: > > > > > In conf/htdig.conf is the line defining > > > > database_dir with an initial value of var/htdig from wherever your base > > directory for running ht-Dig is. > > > > In bin/rundig are the lines defining > > > > DBDIR, COMMONDIR, and BINDIR with initial values of var/htdig, share/htdig, and > > bin, respectively, wherever your base directory for running ht-Dig is. > > > > Which definition of the directory with the databases takes precedence? Why > > define it in both files? Why define the directory with the commands to cre ate > > Precedence doesn't really come into play with the two sets of > definitions. The definitions in rundig are for the purpose of > tasks carried out by the script. Those in htdig.conf are used > by the various ht://Dig programs. > > Note that rundig is provided simply as an example of how one > might create a database using the ht://Dig programs. I believe > it even includes a comment to the effect that it is a sample > script. The variables defined in the script are specific to the > script itself and have no relevance beyond their use in the > script.
Thanks for your response. The documentation indeed states that the rundig script is one possible approach and one may compose one's own, different approach. However the ambiguity comes in because the variables defined in rundig and variables for the ostensibly same purposes seem to affect the commands within the script. While the variables defined in the script have no effect without the script, the variables defined in htdig.conf should have effect within rundig. So rundig defines DBDIR and then runs the command htdig which, I would think, gets its definition of the database directory from the definition of database_dir in htdig.conf. The variable DBDIR is then used to rename .work files in $DBDIR to the names used for searches. So if database_dir in htdig.conf is defined differently from DBDIR in rundig, htdig will use the definition of database_dir in htdig.conf for the location of the databases and then, if the "-a" flag is used, rundig will use DBDIR to determine in which directory to rename the .work files. TMPDIR is defined in rundig. Since the comment in rundig states that the default location of /tmp for TMPDIR is insecure, shouldn't there be a definition in http.conf rather than in rundig? COMMONDIR is defined in rundig and used there to check for the existence of english.0 and synonyms files but then htfuzzy is called to reference the found files with no reference to COMMONDIR. So how does htfuzzy find the files if COMMONDIR doesn't have its default value? Since I could find no reference in htfuzzy either to the variable COMMONDIR or to the value which COMMONDIR is given in rundig on initial configuration and that value isn't assigned to a variable in htdig.conf, I wonder how htfuzzy finds the files in COMMONDIR even if COMMONDIR isn't defined to another value in rundig. TIA. Douglas ======== Douglas Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ ht://Dig general mailing list: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ht://Dig FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-general
