From: Ian L. <ia...@us...> - 2004-11-29 02:13:59
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Thanks Jim, That's what I figured as well but couldn't get it working. I only accessed the file with pico and have never had line end issues before with it. I ended up deleting the entire install and installing fresh and everything seems to be working! Not sure why, I must have messed up the file somehow. Thanks Ian On Nov 28, 2004, at 7:54 PM, Jim wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Ian Landsman wrote: > >> I just installed the latest htdig beta 6. I've never used htdig >> before but everything went fine with the install on RH 8. The only >> thing is htdig always throws a parse error on the conf file and then >> just defaults to using the default settings (only crawls htdig.org, >> etc). It gives a line number but it seems to be useless. I've >> modified the file, I've even removed part of the file and all of the >> file and it still just throws an error. Has anyone seen this before? > > Corrupt config files are not unheard of, but the problem is typically > due > to something done to the file after it is installed. > > Did you by chance edit it on one machine and copy it to another? If so, > did you ensure that line breaks were converted (or not) appropriately? > > If you did not copy it between machines, are you certain that you > edited > the file in a manner that preserved unix style line breaks? > > Have you doubled checked any edits that you made to verify that no > typos > slipped in? One typo to be especially careful of is adding spaces (or > any > other characters) after a line continuation character (i.e. \). > > You might want to check the file with 'cat -v' and look for > occurrences of > non-printing characters. If you find any, that is likely the problem. > > Jim > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real > users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ > _______________________________________________ > ht://Dig general mailing list: <htd...@li...> > ht://Dig FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html > List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-general > |