Re: [htdig] error 13:mkstemp errorhtmerge: Word sort failed

[Geoff H. <ghu...@ws...>]

On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 06:24  PM, Larry Goodwin wrote:

> I am running HTDig to index mailman lists. It works fine on my test 
> lists. When I try it on a large list I get the following error.
>
> mailman% /usr/local/bin/python -S 
> /usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig -v
> htdig'ing archive of list greenlist
> error 13:mkstemp errorhtmerge: Word sort failed
>
> I am running htdig-3.1.6 on MacOS X 10.1.5 The G3 has 512MB of memory.

OK, so that's your RAM. But how much free disk space do you have? In 
particular, mkstemp is creating temporary files--probably in /tmp on 
your system. (This depends on your sort program and whether it respects 
the TMPDIR environment variable.)

So if your /tmp drive is running out of disk space, the word sort will 
indeed fail.

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-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
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