1. OK, honing in on the "possibilities." The "proper backslashes." That is what I do not understand. Guess what I don't understand is where should I place these backslashes? Am willing to try, if I have a clue or a hint.
2. You say, "Look for db.log in your database directory." I do not find any such file in my directory structure. I have tried under /dig/htdig-3.1.5/db/db and see many files, none of which is db.log, however. Is this a file the system admin would need to look up? I am on a shared computer in another city, which I do not have access to (except by Telnet). And, I do not have "root" access. Perhaps I do not understand the question. Should I contact my admin and ask him to try to find such a file and delete it? Will the program re-create it? If so, do I need to perform this task each time I want to re-index? Sorry it I do not udnerstand, but I am trying. Have been at this all of today and most of yesterday. Thanks. -- On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:20:10 Gilles Detillieux wrote: >According to Pub Litics: >> Now, you mention 5.31 on attributes. And you ask if I have exhausted >> all possibilities there. I am not excatly sure what is meant by that >> (yes, I have read and studied the FAQ, to the best of my ability). > >What I mean is, when you go to http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.31, >the answer to question 5.31 lists 8 fairly common reasons why a >configuration attribute setting might seem to be ignored by the program. >We've already ruled out #3, as you only have one config file, and nos. 2, >7 and 8 don't apply to exclude_urls in htdig. So, that leaves 1, 3, 4, >5 and 6 as possibilities to explore and rule out. Until you've ruled out >all 8 as possible causes of an attribute not being taken as you set it, >you haven't exhausted all possibilities. As Geoff pointed out in his >reply, your exclude_urls setting below doesn't have the proper backslashes >at the end of each but the last line, as the last sentence in point #5 >of question 5.31 recommends, so this is a likely possibility to explore. > >> So, I list, below, what I think you mean as "attributes" from the >> htdig.conf file: >> >> exclude_urls: /cgi-bin/ .cgi >> /forum/ >> /applets/ >> /chat/ >> /dig/ >> /htdig/ >> /poll/ >> /random/ >> >> Would that indicate that I have "exhausted" the attributes or is there >> something else I need to do in that regard? > >This would suggest that you haven't exhausted all possibilities, as >point #5 in 5.31 seems to apply here. I never said anything about >exhausting the attributes. > >> OK, next (assuming that "attributes" have been "exhausted") you say >> that "we need to get htdig to issue a warning." I assume that this is >> something you would need to do or tell me to do? A patch or string >> of some kind? > >This was intended as a note to myself and the other developers, pointing >out a need for a code change that seems to have arisen as a result of a >change introduced in 3.1.6. > >The part that was intended for you was to look for db.log in your database >directory, and remove it if you want to make htdig restart indexing from >scratch. > >-- >Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ >Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >Welcome to geek heaven. >http://thinkgeek.com/sf >_______________________________________________ >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 > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ 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
