[Xapian-discuss] not found on this server.

Roger Mason rmason at mun.ca
Wed Nov 30 11:26:48 GMT 2011


On 29/11/2011 8:09 PM, Olly Betts wrote:
> The --url argument give the URL corresponding to the start directory,
> so you want: --url /E-prints
>
> The indexer should notice the URLs have changed, but it'll be a bit
> faster if you add "--overwrite" the first time you rerun this, so that
> it starts from scratch.
>
> Incidentally, it's better not to run things as root if you can avoid it,
> so I'd remove the sudo here and set the permissions on
> /var/lib/xapian-omega/data/ suitably.  If the indexer gets run as user
> "fred" then you can do that with:
>
> chown -R fred /var/lib/xapian-omega/data
>
> Cheers,
>      Olly
Thank you. That was indeed the problem.  And thanks for the tip on 
permissions, now I can set up a cron job to do the indexing.

Best wishes,
Roger

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Roger Mason
Interim Head, Earth Sciences
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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