Re: Anacron job 'cron.daily'
Thanks Jimmy for your extremely detailed answer.
As a matter of fact I don't need any Apache on my LAPTOP; so I simply
dpkg --purge htdig, and now it is all ok.
Anyway I'm sure your answer will be very helpful to other people.
Ciao from Rome
Vittorio
Jimmy Richards [debian-user] <25/06/01 08:36 -0600>:
>
> Hello Vittorio,
>
> I'm not real familiar with htdig, but it says it's a Intranet
> indexing and search system. You can see the description by using the
> command 'dpkg -p htdig'. Or 'apt-cache show htdig' if you don't have it
> installed. If you have htdig installed and want to know what htmerge
> does then type in 'man htmerge'. I believe that htdig will create a
> database that indexes either your entire linux system, or maybe it just
> does directories that it been configured to index, such as where all
> your web pages are stored. I suppose it also creates a web page that you
> can pull up in your web browser enter in what you want to search on and
> then hit enter(or click a search button with your mouse) to perform the
> search. But I'm not sure about that. Like I said I'm not that familiar
> with it. I have installed it but haven't actually used it, yet. But I do
> know that I got the same message as you posted, until one day I decided
> to let a daemon run that I also do not make use of at this time, but
> have installed, which is the http daemon, or apache(I did 'update-rc.d
> -f apache remove after it was installed). That day, my hard drive
> started going off. I thought, 'Oh, it's running an updatedb." But it
> kept going, and going, and going. So I realized something more was going
> on and had a look. Htdig was running. It obviously needed apache to be
> up and running to create the '/var/spool/htdig/db.wordlist.work'
> database that's in your(and was in my) cron job message. If you want to
> use htdig and let it make the database, you'll need plenty of room on
> your /var partition. I have a 20 GB hard drive, about 12 GB's of that is
> used, and it used 480 MB of space for it's database files on my var
> partition. Like I said, I don't know exactly what it indexed, so if I'd
> had a bunch of web pages in the directory where there are normally
> stored for apache to serve up, it may have even needed to make make a
> bigger database than the 480 MB's. From the description of htdig it
> seems that it can index several systems. So, if you have htdig installed
> I think it can be set up to index other machines that are networked
> to your machine. It'd probably make a real big database then!
> To wrap this up, if you want the database to be created, install and
> run apache(or another http daemon other than apache might work also) at
> least on the day that cron kicks off the htdig job. Or, as I saw another
> reply suggest, purge the htdig package with 'dpkg --purge htdig'. Or, if
> you want to leave the htdig package installed, but don't want to see the
> cron job message "htmerge: Unable to open word list file
> '/var/spool/htdig/db.wordlist.work'", then move the cron job file into a
> temporary holding directory with something like the following...
>
> cd /etc
> mkdir temp_removed_cron.daily
> cd cron.daily
> mv htdig ../temp_removed_cron.daily
>
> Or maybe edit the /etc/cron.daily/htdig file so that it doesn't run by
> making every line a comment.
>
>
> Hope that helped Vittorio,
>
> Jimmy Richards
>
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