Re: [htdig-dev] purge and re-index failing

[Christopher M. <chr...@mc...>]

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 17:49, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> Well, right you are.  And, in fact, this is true, but what the
> documentation doesn't say is that the single "-" to get it to read
> from stdin must be after all the other options.  Otherwise, the "-"
> causes htdig to stop scanning the argument list for option arguments,
> so it wouldn't see your -c option (even if -m wasn't swallowing it!).
> So, I'm guessing here that htdig is using the default htdig.conf file,
> instead of the one you want, and so it end up updating a different
> database.  Is this right?  In any case, you need to follow the -m
> with a filename, even if the final "-" overrides it.
> 
> The behaviour we actually want to shoot for is what 3.1.6 does, which
> I think is much more consistent and logical (and better documented).
> See http://www.htdig.org/htdig.html to see what it should be.
> 
> In the meantime, You should probably do something like this:
> 
> echo 'http://newfind.mcgill.ca/indexes/ads/?AdsID=1026232' |
>         ./htdig -s -v -m foo -c /www/htdig/install/conf/ads.conf -
> 
> The "foo" will be ignored.

 Ahh, thank you for clarifying this and for your workaround. The above
line works, and I can re-index my URL! I spent so much time trying all
sorts things to get this to work. Now I can move forward on what I was
doing. Thanks again!

Cheers,

Chris

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