> What kind of shell script did you have in mind? The wiki already provides > some > useful scripts. The tutorials on Nutch also show commands that can be used > in > custom scripts. >
That's exactly my point. There are various scripts in the wiki, based on different versions of Nutch and of variable quality (e.g. some won't work in distributed mode) etc... Let's have one in the repository so that people stop reinventing the wheel or ask where to get one. Of course most of the script will examplify the commands from the Wiki and it will have a good educational value as well as being useful Julien > Is an immediate crawl-with-one-command a desired feature? Provided as Java > code or shell script? > > On Tuesday 23 August 2011 10:12:57 Julien Nioche wrote: > > +1 let's replace it with a shell script instead. > > > > On 22 August 2011 21:56, Markus Jelsma <markus.jel...@openindex.io> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > The crawl command seems to add a lot of confusion. It hides the entire > > > crawl > > > cycle logic from new users, leading to questions, lack of understanding > > > of basic Nutch concepts, unsupported switches of the jobs it executes, > > > more problems etc. I am quite an opponent of the crawl command and > would > > > also not > > > recommend it to anyone including new users. A running Nutch almost > always > > > requires some scripting here and there, cron jobs, locks etc. > > > > > > I propose (most likely a challenging statement) to deprecate the crawl > > > command > > > in 1.4. > > > > > > Users, developers, please comment. > > > > > > Thanks > > -- > Markus Jelsma - CTO - Openindex > http://www.linkedin.com/in/markus17 > 050-8536620 / 06-50258350 > -- * *Open Source Solutions for Text Engineering http://digitalpebble.blogspot.com/ http://www.digitalpebble.com
