Hi Andrew,
"Andrew M. Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I hope this is not an FAQ (well, the FAQ itself doesn't seem to cover
> > it):
> > With the new version 2.6 (from Debian unstable, if that matters), I
> > do not see a way to get the full cache index anymore (called "Latest"
> > in older versions, IIRC). Is there a way to get it back?
>
> This index option has been removed from the latest version.
Argh. I was fearing that...
> The reasons for doing this are that it took too long to create (it
> needed to search through all hosts to find the newest files) and there
IIRC all it took stopping the creation process is to press the Stop
button in ones browser, no? Have there been actual complaints from
users who were accidentally accessing this index and couldn't stop it?
> are now other indexes that are just as useful.
Not quite, I fear. I am sometimes searching things which have been
maybe 30 runs away, and of course, I only remember part of the URI.
Okay, I haven't yet checked out the htDig interface which might be
able to do this too, but I guess it takes even longer to create an
index with a * wildcard.
> Also I have added new index options since then. Things like
> lasttime/prevtime and lastout/prevout are more useful than the latest
> index. They are also a lot simpler to create.
I have lots of prevout pages which are empty because I do not leave
my modem connection open all the time (apart from the fact that my
connection dies on me too) -- and my connect scripts are calling
"wwwoffle -on" and "wwwoffle -off".
> If you want it back, you can't. The next best thing is to increase
> the number of lasttime/prevtime indexes that are created (read the
> file called INSTALL, it is a compile time option).
I would have to increase them to like 50 previous pages and search
through them one by one... :-( Okay, I could write a script for
that and merge them, but this is kludgy.
Really, couldn't this be a compile time option at least, or an
accessible function on a "hidden" page? Maybe with a huge
disclaimer, I don't mind... If I ask nicely? :-)
Cheers,
Colin
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