On Monday 16 February 2004 7:39 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
This index is built with "susehelpindex":
Interesting. I ran susehelpindex as root (it won't run otherwise), and it created indices for 19 documents. Nevertheless when I run susehelp as myself, the search button is greyed out and if I attempt again to recreate the index I get what I got earlier: an indication that htdig was called with an empty argument . So it seems that the index is indeed being created but it's not visible to susehelp when I call it. And I still couldn't do searching. I also tried logging in as a new user and got yet a different result. I had to create an index as *that* user, and according to the creation log, the attempt failed. (The default index directory isn't world-writable.) Yet after that I was able to do searching (as that new user). So there seems to be some per-user information that's getting in the way -- and no documentation I can find to tell me what that might be or to explain how the process of creating a search index is organized. Alas, knowing how htdig works isn't sufficient. Paul Abrahams