On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 02:32:29AM -0800, John Angel wrote:
> > > file are being written.  If I kill this crawl by terminating spider.pl,
> is
> > > there any way convert those .temp files left by the terminated crawl to
> > > usable indices?
> >
> > Yes.  You send the spider a SIGHUP and the spider will stop spidering
> > and swish-e will write the index.
> 
> 
> This should be in FAQ.

Or maybe in the documenation in a nice big <h1> titled "SIGNALS"? ;)

<h1><a NAME="SIGNALS">SIGNALS</a></h1>
<p>
Sending a SIGHUP to the running spider will cause it to stop spidering.
This is a good way to abort spidering, but let swish index the documents
retrieved so far.


-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org