[recoll-user] Re: Indexing directories in /
- From: Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: recoll-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:48:44 +0200
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:45 PM, <jfd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rainer M Krug writes:
> > Hi
> > I would like to index directories under / (in contrast to ~) which
> > contain configuration files (/etc) documentation (which directories
> are
> > those actually?) and binaries (for names). But I would only like to
> > re-index manually avery few days (in contrast to ~ which should be
> > indexed more regular, possibly watching the files). How can I achieve
> > this? Do I have to have two index files? How can Set this up? I
> assume
> > I can not set different update intervalls for different paths?
>
> You need two separate indexes. The one for / should add ~ to skippedPaths
> so that your home directory does not get indexed twice.
>
> https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/MultipleIndexes
>
> http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/book.html#RCL.SEARCH.MULTIDB
>
> http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/book.html#RCL.INSTALL.CONFIG.RECOLLCONF
>
> On the other hand I'm not sure that indexing / is a great idea.
>
> "locate" does a good job with file names, and many interesting files in
> /etc/ are only readable by root (so won't be indexed). And there are quite
> a few temporary, db and spool directories that you'd probably want to skip.
>
> Just indexing /usr/share/doc and /usr/share/man (or even the whole
> /usr/share) might be a better approach.
>
>
Might be a better approach, just to specify the directories to index, but
stil use the "two index approach".
Thanks,
Rainer
> Cheers,
>
> jf
>
>
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