On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:25:43PM +0100, Simon Hildrew wrote:
> Thanks Jon!
> 
> Solved that PDQ.  As you said, by running amadmin I could get what it had
> parsed my configuration file as.  
> 
> It turns out that having "index yes" in my global dumptype is not enough -
> this gets ignored.  Moving the index yes into each of the types individually
> works fine.  Now feeling slightly sheepish on not having tried this first.
> [In my defense the box has a SCSI issue that causes it to crash so I've been
> trying to fix that instead...]
> 
> I've been subscribed to this list for a while and I'm always impressed at
> the helpfulness :-)
> 
> Is this a possible bug then, since the comment for global dumptype uses
> "index yes" as an example?
> 

Possible, though as it seems like it would have been noted earlier,
I'd look at other possibilities.

Often a final dumptype config is the result of several cascading
inclusions of other dumptypes.  Perhaps one of them between global
and your final dumptype is turning indexing off.

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