However...
htpurge with the -a switch expects to find .work files and appears to fail with "htpurge: Database is empty!" if none exist. Surprisingly, htpurge goes on to create empty excerpts.work, docs.index.work, and docdb.work files (even though the only database it modifies is db.docdb).
htpurge without the -a switch appears to only affect db.docdb.
Ted Stresen-Reuter
On Jun 29, 2004, at 12:54 PM, Ted Stresen-Reuter wrote:
Does passing the -a switch to htpurge cause it to work on .work databases if they already exist or does it overwrite existing .work dbs with it's own? The documentation does not make it clear:
http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/htpurge.html
I'm asking because the customized rundig.sh script I'm using runs htpurge -a after htdig -a but before moving the .work files to the live databases. In other words with an existing set of databases, I do (generally):
htdig -a htpurge -a copy .work to live dbs
when perhaps I should be doing:
htdig -a copy .work to live dbs htpurge -a copy .work to live dbs
The documentation made me wonder if htpurge isn't actually operating on the databases that were created on the last run rather than on the current run (since, in the first scenario, the current dbs still have .work on them).
Any help?
Ted Stresen-Reuter
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