[Mailman-Users] HTdig intergration pb

[Richard Barrett]

At 12:13 29/07/2002 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>Maybe someone who has successfully intergrated HTDig and Mailman can help me.
>
>I've been trying to get this to work but problems keep creeping in.
>I've followed the INSTALL.htdig-mm (almost to the letter) but I do feel
>I am not quite correct in the setting that I have and so I get errors
>like this:
>
>
>htdig: Unable to find configuration file 
>'/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/elections-2002/htdig/elections-2002.conf'
>htmerge: Unable to find configuration file 
>'/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/elections-2002/htdig/elections-2002.conf'
>

You do not say but I assume this output is generated when 
$prefix/cron/nightly_htdig is run and in turns runs the htdig rundig script?

Does this file exist?

The path looks plausible from what you say below. These per list htdig 
config files are created when the _first_ message is posted after/when the 
list has archiving enabled and the mailman-htdig patches are installed.

Is there any evidence in the Mailman logs of problems for Mailman writing 
these htdig config files?

Just one thought about the location of the Mailman archives directory under 
/usr/local/mailman. Does the mailman user and group have write permission 
for /usr/local/mailman/archives and all its subdirectories.

When the per list htdig config is created, it is created in 
.../archives/private/<listname>/htdig/<listname>.conf and a symbolic link 
to that file is created as .../archives/htdig/<listname>.conf.

htsearch programs reach the config file via that symbolic link and the link 
named per the HTDIG_MAILMAN_LINK value.

In your case it looks like you will have created a symbolic link 
/usr/local/etc/htdig/htdig-mailman pointing to 
/usr/local/mailman/archives/htdig

In your case, htsearch programs will be trying to access 
/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/<listname>/htdig/<listname>.conf via 
the path /usr/local/etc/htdig/htdig-mailman/<listname>.conf

Let me know if this info helps you find a solution.


>Mailman is installed in /usr/local/mailman
>HTDig config file is in /usr/local/etc/htdig/htdig.conf
>
> From what I read in the the file elections-2002.conf should be created 
> automatically, yes?
>Is someone able to spot a problem with the values below (from mm_cfg.py) 
>with reference
>to the values I've given above?
>
># HTDIG
>
>ARCHIVE_INDEXING_ENABLE = '<!--/htdig_noindex-->'
>ARCHIVE_INDEXING_DISABLE = '<!--htdig_noindex-->'
>USE_HTDIG = 1
>
># These below are the defaults, anyway
>HTDIG_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mailman/htdig'
>HTDIG_SEARCH_URL = '/cgi-bin/htsearch'
>HTDIG_FILES_URL = '/htdig/'
>HTDIG_CONF_LINK_DIR = os.path.join(VAR_PREFIX, 'archives', 'htdig')
>HTDIG_RUNDIG_PATH = '/usr/local/bin/rundig'
>HTDIG_MAILMAN_LINK = 'htdig-mailman'
>REMOTE_HTDIG = 0