Re: /etc/cron.monthly/scrollkeeper noise
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 04:47:39PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> It is the first of the month again and as every month I get a burp of
> noise from scrollkeeper. But I don't even know what it is.
Add -q to the scrollkeeper-rebuilddb line.
> > It stores metadata specified by the http://www.ibiblio.org/osrt/omf/
> > (Open Source Metadata Framework) as well as certain metadata extracted
> > directly from documents (such as the table of contents).
> >
> > It provides various functionality pertaining to this metadata to help
> > browsers, such as sorting the registered documents or searching the
> > metadata for documents which satisfy a set of criteria.
>
> Would it be possible for a kind soul to educate me? What is
> scrollkeeper?
It is a system for registering information about documents installed on
the system and allowing programs like the GNOME help browser to access
them.
> Why does it burp noise every month?
scrollkeeper changed upstream to output more information by default and
to provide a -q option to disable this verbosity. I think the maintainer
forgot to add -q to the cron job to go along with this change.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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