htmerge uses the /bin/sort program.  This program requires temporary disk
space and the error you got indicates that it either ran out of disk space or
it couldn't write to the temporary directory.  You can define where this is by
setting the TMPDIR environment variable before you run htmerge.

Chris Owen wrote:
> 
> I've got a weird problem that I would run by you in case you have heard of
> it before.
> 
> I've used htdig for over a year with no problem, however recently I
> started getting:
> 
> htdig: Run complete
> htdig: 1 server seen:
> htdig:     www.yada.org:80 333 documents
> htmerge: Word sort failed
> 
> I've recompiled (I'm using 3.0.7) and all goes well.   The weird part is
> that this only happens when htdig is run at night via cron.  If I run it
> manually (using the same command as in cron) it will work perfectly.  I
> can run it either in the foreground or as a background process and it
> works, but at night it fails every time (I have several instances of it on
> the same machine and they all fail the same way).
> 
> Any ideas what I might be missing?
> 
> Chris
> 
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