Look at the CHANGES.txt file, some changes dealing with lock files were made a while ago. Have you tried using that?
Otis --- mchaput <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Late last year there was some discussion on the user list regarding > Lucene's attempt to lock the index before a search failing because of > > permissions. Doug suggested one good solution (a flag to not try to > lock) and sombody else suggested a great one (check write > permissions, > and if you can't write, don't bother locking because it doesn't > matter > anyway). > > I was wondering if anything ever came of that discussion, because I'm > > really running up against this right now. We'd really prefer not to > install something and have to make the index dir world writable. > > I suppose it would be too much to hope that patches are available? ;) > > Barring that, can a Lucene guru suggest how much work it would be for > a > Lucene newbie (ie me) to make this change in the source, and where I > would begin? > > Thanks very much! > > Matt > > > -- > | > Matt Chaput | A l i a s | W a v e f r o n t > Information Designer | 210 King St. E. Toronto, ON, Canada M5A 1J7 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (416) 874-8268 > | > "A goddamned ray of sunshine all the goddamned time" --Sparkle Hayter > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>