[ILUG] Mail archive searching

[Donncha O Caoimh]

that'd be me.

Two reasons it's not working:
1. PHP won't play nicely with htdig despite all my efforts.
2. The partition I was holding the search database on filled up several
times, so I switched off the update facility. 

Now, in light of the above we *should* have either taken down the search
box or posted a note below it saying it was "broken but would be back
soon" or something to that effect. 

I believe that there are "things being done" to fix the space issue on
lugh so that problem may disappear in the near future. And the problem
with PHP is one of those "intermittent" ones that work fine when I
tested it from home but then a day later doesn't work for some insane
reason..

Donncha.


Niall O Broin wrote:
> 
> What is with this ? It's always been flaky, but now it's just become
> completely useless. I looked for suse this morning and got no hits. Then I
> looked for niall and got no hits. Unless I and my favourite distribution are
> in somebody's kill file :-) there's something seriously wrong. Now I know
> this is maintained by volunteers, so if the volunteer maintaining the
> archive just hasn't got the time or onclination to fix what's wrong, I
> hereby volunteer in full view of everybody to fix it - all that's necessary
> is that whoever holds the keys to the kingdom passes on the necessary subset
> thereof to me.
> 
> Hold the applause - yes, it's very good of me and all that, but have your
> read "The Selfish Gene" ? - this is altruism in my self interest.