[Mailman-Users] Mailman & htdig integration patch

[Richard Barrett]

On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 02:01 PM, Rob Brandt wrote:

> OK, I have it mostly installed and working.  Sending a message to my 
> test list
> creates the search form at the top of the archives.  I've run the cron 
> job
> manually, and the db's have been created without error in
> /opt/www/htdig/common.

Have list specific db's also been created in:

      $prefix/archives/private/<listname>/htdig.

> But when I try to run a search, I get:
>
> htdig Archives Access Failure
> search failed -12-
>

This error is because mmsearch is not getting back any output from the 
STDOUT of an htsearch instance that is has run as a sub-process to 
search the list-specifc indexes.

Have you checked MM's error log ($prefix/logs/error) for some 
indication of the problem?

Are you certain that the MM config variable HTDIG_HTSEARCH_PATH has the 
right value assigned to match your htdig installation? I think you will 
find the default value in $prefix/Mailman/Defaults.py is 
'/usr/local/bin/htsearch' and you might want to re-assign that to 
'/opt/www/htdig/bin/htsearch' in $prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py if you have 
installed htdig in /opt/www/htdig.

Let us know how you get on.

> If you want to make another attempt to access a list archive then go 
> via the
> list users information page.
>
> If this problem persists then please e-mail the following information 
> to the
> mailman at www.example.org:
>
>     http://www.example.org/pipermail/testlist/
>     /mailman/mmsearch/testlist
>
> What now?
>
> Rob
>
>
> Quoting Richard Barrett <r.barrett at openinfo.co.uk>:
>
>>
>> On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 03:12 PM, Rob Brandt wrote:
>>
>>> I am attempting to apply Richard Barrett's htdig integration patch to
>>> my mailman
>>> 2.1.2 installation and am running into difficulties.
>>>
>>> The patch pages say that I need to apply the "Archive indexer control
>>> to improve
>>> index" before applying the htdig patch, and the Archive patch says I
>>> have to
>>> apply  bug fix patch #728836 first. But I can't find any reference to
>>> a #728836
>>> anywhere in the tracking system, including patches, bugs or feature
>>> requests.
>>>
>>
>> Try looking here:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/
>> index.php?func=detail&aid=728836&group_id=103&atid=100103
>>
>>> Has this been incorporated in 2.1.2?  I tried applying the Archive
>>> indexer patch
>>> directly, but it failed.
>>>
>>
>> At times patches, including #728836, get included in the CVS in
>> preparation for the next MM release (2.1.3 I guess) and are marked as
>> closed although they are still necessary for the current stable 
>> release
>> (2.1.2 in the case of #728836). The patches are still on sourceforge.
>>
>> The INSTALL.htdig-mm file in the #444884 patch contains the URLs of 
>> all
>> the necessary precursor patches on soruceforge. You can also view that
>> file content here:
>>
>> http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mailman/patches/444884/install.html
>>
>>> Help?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Rob
>>
>>
>
>