On Apr 21, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Phillip Pi wrote: >>> On my Debian v4, I did an apt-get upgrade two days ago and >>> installed a >>> few KDE upgrades and the required htdig v3.2.0b6-3.1 (why?). The >>> last >> >> I believe KDE uses ht://Dig to support full text search in >> khelpcenter. >> >>> two mornings I saw these e-mails: >> ... >>> htdig: Errors to take note of: >>> Not found: http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/hts_template.html Ref: >>> +http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/attrs.html >>> Not found: http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/OSs Ref: >>> http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/install.html >> >> The errors you are seeing are due to broken links on the ht://Dig >> site. For some reason that is not clear to me, your ht://Dig install >> is setup to try to index the www.htdig.org daily. I can't imagine >> what value there would be in trying to update that index on a daily >> basis. As has been suggested, I would consider just losing the htdig >> cron job. The ht://Dig package itself I think you need to hang on to >> if you want khelpcenter to remain fully functional. > > I wonder how many people are having this problems. I find it odd > why it > needs to contact your htdig server.
I don't think there is any need to do this. It is probably a side effect of the default build/install of the ht://Dig source, which does generate a config file pointing to www.htdig.org; this default setup serves as an example and provides a means for immediate testing of an install. This in itself is not a problem since the ht://Dig executables don't do anything until someone explicitly runs one of them. It is the Debian supplied cron entry that is actually kicking off the dig and producing the messages you are receiving. My opinion is that adding the cron.daily entry is a mistake. First of all, as you found, users getting the package due to dependencies find their server doing something that doesn't make any sense and serves no purpose. Second, even if the package is installed explicitly, there is no 'correct' indexing period; this is something that should really be decided upon and set by the person managing the search engine. But ultimately this is a Debian decision; they may very well have a reason for this setup that I am simply not aware of. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ 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
