Sorry to bother you folks again, but here's what happened for the curious: http://www.maps.org/htdig/search2.html works fine now - I reran rundig after clearing up some disk space - apparently, earlier rundig's had filled the disk beyond capacity and therefore some key component of the db or db indices wasn't being written. > From: Andrew Stone <andrew> > Date: 1999-07-06 13:17:35 -0600 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Reasons htdig might not find anything?? > > Hello, > > As a volunteer webspinner for www.maps.org, I built and configured > htdig 3.1.2 on a FreeBSD box to run from: > > http://www.maps.org/htdig/search2.html > > Even though rundig produced some nice sized db's: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 maps maps 3683328 Jul 6 11:49 db.docdb > -rw-r--r-- 1 maps maps 45056 Jul 6 11:49 db.docs.index > -rw-r--r-- 1 maps maps 2859704 Jul 6 11:49 db.wordlist > -rw-r--r-- 1 maps maps 3497984 Jul 6 11:49 db.words.db > > htsearch refuses to find any matches, even though these words appear > many times in the db's. > > However, htsearch is finding the db's because if change the name of > the db directory, I get an error. > > So - if you have any suggestions on what might be causing this, or a > way to debug the htsearch, please reply to me directly at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thank you! > > > === > Andrew Stone, QuixMaster of Stone Design Corp > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (505) 345-4800 > http://www.stone.com - Create(TM) > > === Andrew Stone, QuixMaster of Stone Design Corp mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (505) 345-4800 http://www.stone.com - Create(TM) ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the htdig mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the single word "unsubscribe" in the SUBJECT of the message.