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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 21:05:08 +0100
From:      "Stefan Bethke" <stefan.bethke@hanse.de>
To:        www@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, jfieber@FreeBSD.ORG, cracauer@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Email search engine down?
Message-ID:  <916920.3096738308@stefan.promo.de>

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--On Die, 17. Feb 1998 7:22 Uhr -0800 "Jordan K. Hubbard"
<jkh@time.cdrom.com> wrote: 

> I'm getting some odd errors from it.

OK, the message "None of the archives you requested (freebsd-questions) are
available at this time." seems to be due to a remaining lock file.

I looked into bin/mailindex, and tried to rebuild the WAIS index by removing
the locks and .files, so the prepared files are added to the index again(?)

The lock files stay after mailindex (and waisindex) are finished. Removing
them seems to leave an empty or non-functional index.

John, could you please rebuild questions and announce, and maybe give me and
Martin a few hints how to resolve such issues the next time?

Thanks,
Stefan

p.s. I think the index might be damaged, and that mailindex tries to add to
it instead of rebuilding it. However, I didn't really feel like nuking the
index...

Comparing the original lock files' dates with the uptime, one might believe
the last reboot left the index in a bad state.

hub:/usr/local/www$ uptime
 9:51AM  up 2 days, 19:20, 6 users, load averages: 0.45, 0.48, 0.57
hub:/usr/local/www$ ls -l db/index/*.lock
-rw-r--r--  1 jfieber  www  5 Feb 15 03:01
db/index/freebsd-announce.index.lock
-rw-r--r--  1 jfieber  www  5 Feb 15 03:16
db/index/freebsd-questions.index.lock
-rw-r--r--  1 jfieber  www  5 Feb 15 03:16
db/index/freebsd-questions.update.lock


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