I tried the -a option but still no luck. It uses alternate files, so I can still use
the search engine while htdig is indexing. But when htdig/htmerge is finished, my old
database is wiped out so I loose all the data from prior searches.
I'm sure I am missing some option somewhere. Do most people re-index from scratch?
>>> "Marcel Hicking" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/06/00 12:50PM >>>
Run both htdig and htmerge with option -a
(= use alternate work file)
htdig/merge will then work on the file called s ...db.work
instead of the current .db files.
See htdig --help ;-)
Then copy the workfiles over the actual database.
ie:
( cd $DBDIR && test -f db.docdb.work &&
for f in *.work
do
# mv -f $f `basename $f .work`
# Keep alternate work files for next upgrade dig
cp -f $f `basename $f .work`
done )
See the file "rundig" in the ht://dig bin dir for details.
Somewhere around line 40.
But as far as I remeber, htdig always does an update dig
unless you use -i
Try htdig -vv / htmerge -vv to see what is actually
happening.
Depending on the site you are digging, the following
might be helpful as well:
I have a server where all content is generated "on the fly"
from a database. So the document date is always "now"
causing htdig to retrieve the full site on every run.
No very nice since this is a big site, and I can't run the
dig via local filesystem naturally.
But this is actually not a ht://dig problem but lies with
the site's content. (And I haven't found a workaround
yet since the date of last document change is not even
in the database ;-( )
Cheers, Marcel
On 4 Aug 00, at 15:13, Chad Phillips wrote:
> How can I do an update on the Htdig database, with out deleting what is there? I
>had thought that the original database would kept as long as htdig was not run with
>the -i flag.
>
> The database I have took a long time to build and I want to add one more site, but I
>don't want to start the indexing from scratch. Should I build another database for
>the one site and then run htmerge?
>
> thanks
> chad
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