According to Jim Cole: > Tony Melia's bits of Tue, 20 Nov 2001 translated to: > >No, I am indexing over 2G of data on a remote server, so to speed things up > >I removed the -i parameter from htdig, as I saw that it then recognised what > >was changed and unchanged. Are you saying that to get a complete index, you > >have to reindex everything every night (or whatever index period you > >chose)?? > > Sorry. That is not what I meant to imply. Originally I read your > question as asking how to reindex the entire site from scratch. > The -i option allows you to do this. You should be able to update > by removing the -i (and using -a if the search engine is to > remain available during the update). On rereading your original > post, it sounds like you are saying the real problem is that the > update results in databases that contain *only* those documents > that were modified. If that is in fact what is happening, I can't > explain the behavior; in my experience, running an update has > always resulted in a complete database. > > You might want to try running the update with -vv or -vvv in > order to see what is happening to the URL's that are being lost.
Make sure you keep your db.wordlist file around too. While it's not needed by htsearch, it most certainly is needed for update runs of htdig. Otherwise, htdig will generate a new word list containing only the words of updated documents. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
