----- Original Message -----
From: "Manoharam Reddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 6:23 PM
After I create the crawldb after running bin/nutch crawl, I start my
Tomcat server. It gives proper search results.
What I am wondering is that even after I delete, the 'crawl' folder,
the search page still gives proper search results. How is this
possible? Only after I restart the Tomcat server, it stops giving
results.
The webapp seems to cache data. I have a related problem: updates to the
indexes are only noticed after restarting Tomcat (so I have scheduled a
nightly cron job to do that).
Question for the Ones Who Know: in "bin/nutch mergesegs", can I use the same
directory for input and output?
For example:
bin/nutch mergesegs crawl/segments -dir crawl/segments
Same for mergedb: can I issue:
bin/nutch mergedb crawl/crawldb crawl/crawldb
At present I pass through temporary directories, and then I switch them in
place of the old ones with a couple of "mv", but I don't know if that's
necessary, or may even be harmful (for example, leaving the webapp, unaware
of the "mv", pointing to the inode of the old directory). And I noticed that
"bin/nutch mergedb" does not create the output directory until it's done, so
I wonder if the explicit use of a temporary directory in my scripts is
redundant.
Enzo
