According to Anthony E.:
> I remember when i switched from Solaris to Linux about
> a year ago, I had some problem like this, and it was
> the filetype or something with the database and the
> flat files.
>
> I forget what I did to fix it, but also, I copied the
> db over then - this time, I completely installed a new
> version of htdig on Linux.
Yeah, this is a different situation. The usual problem with copying the
db from one machine to a different type of system is the byte-ordering
differences in binary data, of which there's a lot in db.docdb.
The db.wordlist file is plain text, so it can be copied over. 3.2.0b3
has htdump/htload utilities to get plain text versions of your dbs for
exactly this sort of thing, but this doesn't exist (yet) for 3.1.5, so
the only option is to reindex on the new machine.
And a little later...
> I checked the documentation on running htdig.
> i didn't initailly use "rundig -i"
>
> To delete the database, can i just wipe out the
> contents of the ./db/ directory, and re-run "./rundig
> -i"?
You don't give the -i option to rundig. rundig always passes the -i option
to htdig, so you don't bother with it. The provided rundig script is intended
for initial digs. Most users end up using a different script to do update
digs, calling htdig without the -i. With the -i, htdig deletes the existing
database, if there is one, before beginning. So, if you have no exisiting
database, it doesn't matter if you have the -i or not.
> What about the some of the other non-html files in
> ./common/ ?
Apart from the HTML template files, there is only the bad_words list, and
a few dictionary files and databases for endings and synonyms fuzzy match
algorithms. I don't see a connection between them and the problem you
reported.
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