On November 12, 1998 at 15:34, Kevin Noonan wrote:
> However, these seem to be applicable to a green-field installation. What if
> you have (a hundred or more) existing archives, indexed by date and thread
> and you'd like to add indexes by subject and author? What needs to be done
> in addition (or differently)? Is it sufficient to follow the instructions on
> Otherindexes in documentation and then run
>
> mhonarc -editidx
-editidx is not necessary. If you specify a resource file everytime
you update the archive, the next update should generate the alternate
indexes. If you do not specify a resource file everytime, you can
update your invocation of mhonarc to specify one for enough time for
mhonarc to be invoked at least once (for each archive). Or, use the
-otherindex command-line options (NOTE: if using 2.3, make sure you
have 2.3.3 since -otherindex is broken in 2.3.0-2.3.2).
Note, -editidx is an expensive operation, especially for large archives.
An alternative method may be to use GENIDX. A lock is only done long
enough to read the database, and then it is releases before generating
the index.
--ewh
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Earl Hood
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