Re: Restarting w/o losing the indices

[ht inf ed ac uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

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D Bera writes:

> Are you indexing files on NFS (or something mounted remotely) ? This
> seems to be a problem with index synchronization (which, I think,
> copies the index locally, does more indexing and copies it back upon
> shutdown). I noticed there is a flag to turn off this feature:

Thanks for the hint -- I think that was indeed the problem, in that
/home/ht/.beagle is indeed on NFS, symlinked to a local real disk, but
that's apparently not good enough.  Changing to using 

 foo> BEAGLE_HOME=/[realdisk]/beaglehome beagled . . .

seems to have done the trick.

ht
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