Thanks Jimmy for your extremely detailed answer. As a matter of fact I don't need any Apache on my LAPTOP; so I simply dpkg --purge htdig, and now it is all ok.
Anyway I'm sure your answer will be very helpful to other people. Ciao from Rome Vittorio Jimmy Richards [debian-user] <25/06/01 08:36 -0600>: > > Hello Vittorio, > > I'm not real familiar with htdig, but it says it's a Intranet > indexing and search system. You can see the description by using the > command 'dpkg -p htdig'. Or 'apt-cache show htdig' if you don't have it > installed. If you have htdig installed and want to know what htmerge > does then type in 'man htmerge'. I believe that htdig will create a > database that indexes either your entire linux system, or maybe it just > does directories that it been configured to index, such as where all > your web pages are stored. I suppose it also creates a web page that you > can pull up in your web browser enter in what you want to search on and > then hit enter(or click a search button with your mouse) to perform the > search. But I'm not sure about that. Like I said I'm not that familiar > with it. I have installed it but haven't actually used it, yet. But I do > know that I got the same message as you posted, until one day I decided > to let a daemon run that I also do not make use of at this time, but > have installed, which is the http daemon, or apache(I did 'update-rc.d > -f apache remove after it was installed). That day, my hard drive > started going off. I thought, 'Oh, it's running an updatedb." But it > kept going, and going, and going. So I realized something more was going > on and had a look. Htdig was running. It obviously needed apache to be > up and running to create the '/var/spool/htdig/db.wordlist.work' > database that's in your(and was in my) cron job message. If you want to > use htdig and let it make the database, you'll need plenty of room on > your /var partition. I have a 20 GB hard drive, about 12 GB's of that is > used, and it used 480 MB of space for it's database files on my var > partition. Like I said, I don't know exactly what it indexed, so if I'd > had a bunch of web pages in the directory where there are normally > stored for apache to serve up, it may have even needed to make make a > bigger database than the 480 MB's. From the description of htdig it > seems that it can index several systems. So, if you have htdig installed > I think it can be set up to index other machines that are networked > to your machine. It'd probably make a real big database then! > To wrap this up, if you want the database to be created, install and > run apache(or another http daemon other than apache might work also) at > least on the day that cron kicks off the htdig job. Or, as I saw another > reply suggest, purge the htdig package with 'dpkg --purge htdig'. Or, if > you want to leave the htdig package installed, but don't want to see the > cron job message "htmerge: Unable to open word list file > '/var/spool/htdig/db.wordlist.work'", then move the cron job file into a > temporary holding directory with something like the following... > > cd /etc > mkdir temp_removed_cron.daily > cd cron.daily > mv htdig ../temp_removed_cron.daily > > Or maybe edit the /etc/cron.daily/htdig file so that it doesn't run by > making every line a comment. > > > Hope that helped Vittorio, > > Jimmy Richards > > > --- Debian gives me a Woody --- > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Description: PGP Key 0x0062D7A7.
