Hi I think it would be very useful if the NutchBean would check if the crawl dir exists and throw at least a warning in case it doesn't:
Index: nutch-0.8/src/java/org/apache/nutch/searcher/NutchBean.java =================================================================== --- nutch-0.8/src/java/org/apache/nutch/searcher/NutchBean.java (Revision 436787) +++ nutch-0.8/src/java/org/apache/nutch/searcher/NutchBean.java (Arbeitskopie) @@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ if (dir == null) { dir = new Path(this.conf.get("searcher.dir", "crawl")); } + if (!new java.io.File(dir.toString()).exists()) { + LOG.warn("No such directory: " + new java.io.File(dir.toString())); + } Path servers = new Path(dir, "search-servers.txt"); if (fs.exists(servers)) { if (LOG.isInfoEnabled()) { WDYT? Thanks Michi -- Michael Wechner Wyona - Open Source Content Management - Apache Lenya http://www.wyona.com http://lenya.apache.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +41 44 272 91 61 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nutch-developers mailing list Nutch-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-developers