Re: [htdig] failure in retriever.cc ?

[Rhonda H. <rh...@pa...>]

* Jim Cole <li...@yg...> [16 Sep 2003 00:07]:
> On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 04:15 PM, Rhonda Hyslop wrote:
> 
> Do you have a progress log file in your database directory? By default, 
> I think it should be a file with a '.log' suffix. The above 'assert' 
> implies that htdig is choking when it tries to read in the contents of 
> a progress log. Since you killed the dig after running into significant 
> problems with the URLs that it was trying to process, it is not 
> unlikely that you ended up with log that is somehow corrupt. The 
> easiest way to test this theory is to simply delete the file and try 
> the dig again.

A-ha! I did indeed have a rather large db.log file, and deleting caused
a successful start.  I will now see if it completes normally...

Thanks,
  -Rhonda
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