<chapter id="administration">
- <!-- $Id: administration.xml,v 1.5 2002-04-10 14:47:48 heikki Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: administration.xml,v 1.11 2002-10-20 14:02:02 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.
<para>
You can edit the configuration file with a normal text editor.
parameter names and values are separated by colons in the file. Lines
- starting with a hash sign (<literal>#</literal>) are
+ starting with a hash sign (<literal>#</literal>) are
treated as comments.
</para>
explained further in the following sections.
</para>
- <para>
+ <!--
FIXME - Didn't Adam make something to have multiple databases in multiple dirs...
- </para>
+ -->
<para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<emphasis>group</emphasis>
- .recordType[<emphasis>.name</emphasis>]:
+ .recordType[<emphasis>.name</emphasis>]:
<replaceable>type</replaceable>
</term>
<listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Specifies the Z39.50 database name.
- FIXME - now we can have multiple databases in one server. -H
+ <!-- FIXME - now we can have multiple databases in one server. -H -->
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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>
in the configuration file. In addition, you should set
<literal>storeKeys</literal> to <literal>1</literal>, since the Zebra
indexer must save additional information about the contents of each record
- in order to modify the indices correctly at a later time.
+ in order to modify the indexes correctly at a later time.
</para>
- <para>
- FIXME - There must be a simpler way to do this with Adams string tags -H
- </para>
+ <!--
+ FIXME - There must be a simpler way to do this with Adams string tags -H
+ -->
<para>
For example, to update records of group <literal>esdd</literal>
and then run <literal>zebraidx</literal> with the
<literal>update</literal> command.
</para>
+ <!-- ### what happens if a file contains multiple records? -->
</sect1>
<sect1 id="generic-ids">
In order to make changes to the system take effect for the
users, you'll have to submit a "commit" command after a
(sequence of) update operation(s).
- You can ask the indexer to commit the changes immediately
- after the update operation:
</para>
<para>
<screen>
- $ zebraidx update /d1/records update /d2/more-records commit
+ $ zebraidx update /d1/records
+ $ zebraidx commit
</screen>
</para>
<para>
<screen>
- $ zebraidx -g books update /d1/records update /d2/more-records
+ $ zebraidx -g books update /d1/records /d2/more-records
$ zebraidx -g fun update /d3/fun-records
$ zebraidx commit
</screen>