According to Patrick Dugal:
> I am trying to run htmerge on a database of approximately 26,000
> documents but I keep getting "Word sort failed" when it runs from an
> "at" command. I have written a PERL program similar to the default
> rundig script. I've seen messages that say that csh works better for
> some unknown reason, but there should be a good reason. In my PERL
> script, I set the TMPDIR environment variable to a directory where
> there is over 13 Gigabytes of space without quotas.
>
> df output:
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/blah 17646120 4223684 13422436 24% /home/htdig/
>
> Yet, I still get the "word sort failed" message. I've checked to
> make sure that the sort is using the directory with lots of space and
> not /tmp. It does use the large space because new files show up in this
> large directory as htmerge is running, and no new files show up in /tmp.
> This same problem occurs when I try to update a larger database of
> 115,000 documents. Does it matter if the Filesystem is of type NFS?
> I need to find a solution to this. Does anybody have any idea as to
> what the problem is and how to cure it?
You didn't mention which platform or OS you're running, but this sounds
a lot like the infamous vixie-cron signal bug in Red Hat 5.0 & 5.1.
The atrun program that runs at jobs on Red Hat is itself a cron job,
so the problem would still apply. If this is the OS you're running, you
should upgrade to the latest vixie-cron from the 5.2 distribution, i.e.
vixie-cron-3.0.1-26.{arch}.rpm.
Running htmerge from ash or csh seems to fix the problem, but it seems
that's because of the misbehaviour of one program counteracting the
misbehaviour of another, and resetting the handling of the SIGCHLD signal,
which, for some reason, the folks at Red Hat had patched vixie-cron
to ignore.
If you're running on a different platform, the problem is likely
different. Some details on your OS, and verbose output from htmerge
may be in order.
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