<chapter id="administration">
- <!-- $Id: administration.xml,v 1.8 2002-10-11 09:05:09 adam Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: administration.xml,v 1.9 2002-10-17 08:10:08 mike Exp $ -->
<title>Administrating Zebra</title>
-
+ <!-- ### It's a bit daft that this chapter (which describes half of
+ the configuration-file formats) is separated from
+ "recordmodel.xml" (which describes the other half) by the
+ instructions on running zebraidx and zebrasrv. Some careful
+ re-ordering is required here.
+ -->
+
<para>
Unlike many simpler retrieval systems, Zebra supports safe, incremental
updates to an existing index.
group of records. If you plan to update/delete this type of
records later this should be specified as 1; otherwise it
should be 0 (default), to save register space.
+ <!-- ### this is the first mention of "register" -->
See <xref linkend="file-ids"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <!-- ### probably a better place to define "register" -->
<term>register: <replaceable>register-location</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
<term>keyTmpDir: <replaceable>directory</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
- Directory in which temporary files used during zebraidx' update
+ Directory in which temporary files used during zebraidx's update
phase are stored.
</para>
</listitem>
That is, when a client wishes to retrieve a record
following a search operation, the files are accessed from the place
where you originally put them - if you remove the files (without
- running <literal>zebraidx</literal> again, the client
- will receive a diagnostic message.
+ running <literal>zebraidx</literal> again, the server will return
+ diagnostic number 14 (``System error in presenting records'') to
+ the client.
</para>
<para>