Re: [htdig] All search results end in .gif

[Geoff Hutchison]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Malcolm Austen wrote:

> + > /opt/www/htdig/bin/htdig -u htdig:htd1ggles -i -s
> + > /opt/www/htdig/bin/htmerge -c /opt/www/htdig/conf/htdig.conf -vvv -s
> + 
> + Yes, these will clear the databases every time. I don't think it has
> 
> When did that change? It certainly wasn't true when I took over our setup
> which was running 3.0.something at the time.

It's certainly been true since I've used ht://Dig, starting with 3.0.8b2
and probably before that. The -i flag to htdig just deletes the existing
databases and starts from scratch.

> while the -i flag to htdig was starting that stage from scatch, htmerge
> had no such flag and was merging the results from htdig into the existing

Let me make this clear. There is no need for htmerge to have such a
flag. In pre-3.2 code, it makes the word index and doc index from db.docdb
and db.wordlist fresh *every* time it is run. If htdig was run with -i,
then these documents were deleted before htdig did anything else.

If your databases are growing too large, then:
1) You must make sure you are using the most recent version of
ht://Dig. Between version 3.0.8b2 and 3.1.0 (and even beyond), we fixed a
number of database corruption problems, duplicate record problems, etc.
2) Something else is going on that merits closer inspection.

But htmerge doesn't have such a flag because it doesn't need one.
Cheers,
--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/


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