On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 01:01:05AM -0600, Jim wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Aaron Levitt wrote: > > >I have recently downloaded/compiled and installed htdig on an Apple > >Xserve. The only problem seems to be getting the initial database going. > >I followed all the docs to set up htdig.conf. The only thing out of the > >ordinary is that I am using a file for start_url because each document > >doesn't link to the next. I run rundig for the first time, it seems to > >run htdig -i, and then htnotify, and it also creates files in the > >htdig/db/ directory, but the htnotify never seems to end. At first, I > >thought it was due to the number of documents I am trying to index (over > >500,000). I gave it 8 hours, but it never finished. > > There is a bug in htnotify that only adversely affects certain platforms. > The following patch fixes the problem. > > ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/htdig-patches/3.1.6/htnotifyNull.0 > > If you would prefer not to mess with patching the code, you can also just > set the htnotify_prefix_file and htnotify_suffix_file attributes. By > default these attributes do not specify valid files and that is what > triggers the bug. > > http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#htnotify_prefix_file > http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#htnotify_suffix_file
Also, htnotify is optional since, IIRC, it's purpose is to send email to specified addresses if a document has changed. I had a problem with it never completing and disabled it by commenting out the htnotify line in rundig script. -- Milan ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ 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
