On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 04:47:39PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > It is the first of the month again and as every month I get a burp of > noise from scrollkeeper. But I don't even know what it is.
Add -q to the scrollkeeper-rebuilddb line. > > It stores metadata specified by the http://www.ibiblio.org/osrt/omf/ > > (Open Source Metadata Framework) as well as certain metadata extracted > > directly from documents (such as the table of contents). > > > > It provides various functionality pertaining to this metadata to help > > browsers, such as sorting the registered documents or searching the > > metadata for documents which satisfy a set of criteria. > > Would it be possible for a kind soul to educate me? What is > scrollkeeper? It is a system for registering information about documents installed on the system and allowing programs like the GNOME help browser to access them. > Why does it burp noise every month? scrollkeeper changed upstream to output more information by default and to provide a -q option to disable this verbosity. I think the maintainer forgot to add -q to the cron job to go along with this change. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]