Overview Of The Verity Mkvdk Utility; Mkvdk Syntax - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5-ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION Manual

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Overview of the Verity mkvdk Utility

The
can be used in various ways to create and maintain collections. It is a command line
utility that can be used within other applications or shell scripts to provide more
sophisticated scheduling and other capabilities.
mkvdk

mkvdk syntax

The following is the basic syntax of the command:
mkvdk -collection path [option] [dockey]
Multiple options and dockeys can be included, as needed. If
should consist of an at-sign (@) followed by the filename that contains a simple list of
files, as in @filelist. The options for
The following operations occur when you use
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2
3
4
5
When problems occur during an operation,
system log file (
by using
choice by using the
The format of the log file is shown below:
You can use the log file to view details about what happens during the collection
building process. Use the
identifier for the message level you want, as summarized in the following table:
Type
Fatal
Error
Warning
utility is an indexing application, provided with other Verity utilities, that
mkvdk
can be found in the ColdFusion bin directory:
(Windows)
cfusion\bin
opt/coldfusion/verity/<platform>/bin
, , or
_ssol26 _hpux11
New collection directories are created and the specified style files are copied to
the style subdirectory.
The style file settings are read and the required information is passed to the Verity
search engine.
The gateway is used to open the document files, which are parsed according to
the settings in various style files.
A new partition is created, which includes an index and an attribute table.
Assist data is generated, which may include a spanning word list.
sysinfo.log
with the
mkvdk
-loglevel
Number
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2
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mkvdk
mkvdk
). You can direct error and other messages to the console
option. You can direct messages to a file of your
-outlevel
and
-logfile
command and specify the numeric
mkvdk -loglevel
(Linux, UNIX), where
dockey
to create a new collection:
mkvdk
writes error messages to the
options.
is
<platform>
is a list of files, it