On Mon, 1999-09-13 18:03:35 +0100, Martin Oldfield wrote: > I thought I'd give glimpse a whirl to index a bunch of email archives, > but I get a segmentation fault: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > % glimpseindex -o -B archive > > This is glimpseindex version 4.1, 1997. > > Indexing "/home/mjo/adamsarch/archive" ... > > > Size of files being indexed = 172104723 B, Total #of files = 26801 > Segmentation fault > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > The BTS seems to have similar problems already e.g. bug 20037 but no > obvious solution. I'm running version 4.1-2 which seems to be the most > recent. > > Has anyone else been down this path before, and did they find a > solution ? > > Cheers, > -- > Martin Oldfield,
I had success with just `glimpseindex -o'. Caveats: 1) The working directory was ~/Mail. 2) Under that, there were a large number (~30) of subdirectories, each in maildir format (i.e., each had a new, cur and tmp directory, with the email being held one message to a file under cur). 3) The result was to place eight .glimpse... files in ~, but then glimpse worked just as documented to search them. 4) Also running version 4.1-2 on a slink system (but with linux 2.2.12). Good luck, Keith