mailing list archive search broken

mailing list archive search broken

[Simon Michael]

Hi gnus-folk,

I believe the search form at http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/
is broken. I'm not getting hits of any kind.

-Simon

Re: mailing list archive search broken

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com> writes:

> I believe the search form at http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/
> is broken. I'm not getting hits of any kind.

Indeed.

Jason, you're running that thing, aren't you?  Is it feeling poorly? 

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Re: mailing list archive search broken

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

LMI> Jason, you're running that thing, aren't you?  Is it feeling poorly?

Funny.  I wrote it and that other Jason runs it.

Unfortunately the archive search software (Wilma) uses Glimpse as its
backend, and Glimpse likes to freak and corrupt its indices and such.  So
occasionally the indices need to be dumped and completely regenerated.

I have a partially-written replacement based on htdig, but it's nowhere
near done and time is always short.

 - J<

Re: mailing list archive search broken

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu> writes:

> LMI> Jason, you're running that thing, aren't you?  Is it feeling poorly?
>
> Funny.  I wrote it and that other Jason runs it.

See?  That's what makes it so convenient.  :-)

> Unfortunately the archive search software (Wilma) uses Glimpse as its
> backend, and Glimpse likes to freak and corrupt its indices and such.  So
> occasionally the indices need to be dumped and completely regenerated.

Perhaps it could just be put into a cron job or something?

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: mailing list archive search broken

[Jason R. Mastaler]

On 19 Aug 2001, Jason L. Tibbitts, III wrote:

> Unfortunately the archive search software (Wilma) uses Glimpse as
> its backend, and Glimpse likes to freak and corrupt its indices and
> such.  So occasionally the indices need to be dumped and completely
> regenerated.

In this case, it was a path problem in the .cf file.  Glimpse doesn't
like following symlinks apparently.

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Re: mailing list archive search broken

[Jason R. Mastaler]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Simon Michael wrote:

> I believe the search form at http://www.gnus.org/list-archives/ding/
> is broken. I'm not getting hits of any kind.

It should be fixed now, sorry about that.

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