Ken Petri wrote: > And does anyone know if Verity is working on the *supported* distros? We run > RH3 Enterprise. In CFMX6.1 Verity worked only in limited fashion (certain > types of documents, including PDF and Word could not be indexed), radically > limiting its functionality. Additionally, the verity spider didn't work at > all. > > Our institution spent money on a tech support incident with Macromedia, only > to find out that, yes, I was correct, these things did not work. The > documentation on what was supported and what worked or didn't was limited, > necessitating us spending money to find out that a major function of CFMX was > simply broken in linux. > > I've heard the "use Lucene" reply, as well. But that's absurd. ColdFusion > isn't cheap and Linux users pay just as much as Windows users. Verity should > just work! Plain and simple. If I want a Lucene-implemented CF search and > spidering facility on Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X, I can get the *free* > version of BlueDragon and, voila, it works perfectly. Obviously, BlueDragon > is behind the feature curve compaired to MX7. So I'd rather stick with CF. > But I'll wait until I hear what users have to say before upgrading from 6.1. > > If Macromedia can't prompt Verity to fully support linux filesystems, then > Macromedia should dump Verity and write their own tool. > > I'd be very curious to know what experiences people have had with Verity > indexing and spidering in version 7 on RH and other distros. I would hope > things would be fixed.... I'll be watching this thread. > > ken
CFMX 6.1 was released in August 2003 before Red Hat 3.0 was out. CFMX support for RHEL 3.0 was established later, with the exception of Verity. Then a Verity hotfix was released for ColdFusion which allowed Verity to work on RHEL 3.0. Make sure you are using the hotfix if you have CFMX 6.1. See: http://www.macromedia.com/go/tn_19339 CFMX 6.x did not ship vspider for Linux. CFMX 7 does, and it works, although a hotfix was just released last week to correct some issues that were discovered with collections made from Vspider. See: http://www.macromedia.com/go/50f419a and http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=alias&alias=CFMX7Vspider PDF's can be indexed in CFMX 6.1 or CFMX 7 on RHEL 3.0, just be sure to follow the guide for document version support. See: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00001305.htm http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/indexse5.htm http://www.macromedia.com/go/tn_18149 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:14:3891 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/14 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:14 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.14 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
