After installing Mandrake 7.2, for a good while got the following message
DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified
from running my cron.daily job. I tracked it down to the htdig-dbgen script where
htmerge have problems because there are no words for it to index (as I don't have any
web pages on my linux box).
I have looked at the rpm's and it appears htdig-dbgen is installed as part of the
htdig rpm. The dependencies tell that htdig by kdebase and thus part of the standard
installation (as I understand it). I presume KDE uses it to generate the indexes of
it help pages. So it does not seem that I can remove the htdig package.
Now MandrakeSoft did not consider it a support problem that I got errors on a fresh
installation, so they referred me to this list. My immediate work around was to make
a single web page with a couple of words in /var/www/html/index.html. In this way
htmerge always has a couple of words to index and is all happy. However, as I do not
run a web server, I thought that I might just simply remove htdig-delete from my
cron.daily directory. Is there any reason why I should not do this?
Thanks in advance
Peter
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