[Mailman-Users] Error while searching the archives

Tue Jul 19 14:58:26 EDT 2016

On 19 July 2016 at 21:38, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> On 07/19/2016 01:56 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> >
> > In mm_cfg.py, I have:
> >
> > HTDIG_HTSEARCH_PATH = '/usr/local/www/cgi-bin/htsearch'
> >
> > I tried running it:
> >
> > root at gw:/usr/home/wash # /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/htsearch
> > Enter value for words: walu
> > Content-type: text/html
> >
> > <html><head><title>htsearch error</title></head>
> > <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
> > <h1>ht://Dig error</h1>
> > <p>htsearch detected an error.  Please report this to the
> > webmaster of this site by sending an e-mail to:
> > <a href="mailto:unconfigured at htdig.searchengine.maintainer
> > <mailto:unconfigured at htdig.searchengine.maintainer
> >">unconfigured at htdig.searchengine.maintainer</a>
> > The error message is:</p>
> > <pre>
> > Unable to read word database file
> > '/usr/local/share/htdig/database/db.words.db'
> > Did you run htdig?
> > </pre>
> > </body></html>
>
>
> That's good as far as it goes. Making it actually work from the command
> line is more complicated than that. It expects environment variables and
> POST data from the search form.
>
> Has this ever worked? If so, what did you do just prior to its stopping
> working? Have you made any changes and not restarted Mailman?
>
>
I think it worked before. Can't tell for sure. The only change I have made
recently is to have my URLs use https.

I have just tried to run it again and I see this in the browser:

ht://Dig error

htsearch detected an error. Please report this to the webmaster of this
site by sending an e-mail to: mailman at lists.kictanet.or.ke The error
message is:

Unable to read word database file
'/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/kictanet/htdig/db.words.db'
Did you run htdig?

root at gw:/usr/home/wash # ls -al
/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/kictanet/htdig/
total 770718
drwxrws---    2 root     mailman        512 Mar  1 02:19 .
drwxrwsr-x  142 root     mailman       7680 Jul 19 21:54 ..
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      24576 Mar  1 02:19 db.docdb
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      24576 Mar  1 02:19 db.docs.index
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman  mailman      24576 Mar  1 02:19 db.excerpts
-rw-r--r--    1 root     mailman       3918 May 29  2013 kictanet.conf
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mailman    2228224 Mar  1 02:24 root2word.db
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mailman          0 Mar  2 02:19 rundig_last_run
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mailman      90112 Mar  1 02:24 synonyms.db
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     mailman  786374656 Mar  1 02:24 word2root.db

-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
"Oh, the cruft."