<chapter id="administration">
- <!-- $Id: administration.xml,v 1.10 2002-10-17 21:54:21 mike Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: administration.xml,v 1.20 2006-01-18 14:00:54 marc Exp $ -->
<title>Administrating Zebra</title>
<!-- ### It's a bit daft that this chapter (which describes half of
the configuration-file formats) is separated from
<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>
<varlistentry>
<term>
<emphasis>group</emphasis>
- .recordType[<emphasis>.name</emphasis>]:
+ .recordType[<emphasis>.name</emphasis>]:
<replaceable>type</replaceable>
</term>
<listitem>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>profilePath: <literal>path</literal></term>
+ <term>profilePath: <replaceable>path</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Specifies a path of profile specification files.
Specifies <replaceable>size</replaceable> of internal memory
to use for the zebraidx program.
The amount is given in megabytes - default is 4 (4 MB).
+ The more memory, the faster large updates happen, up to about
+ half the free memory available on the computer.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>tempfiles: <replaceable>Yes/Auto/No</replaceable></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Tells zebra if it should use temporary files when indexing. The
+ default is Auto, in which case zebra uses temporary files only
+ if it would need more that <replaceable>memMax</replaceable>
+ megabytes of memory. This should be good for most uses.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<para>
Specifies a directory base for Zebra. All relative paths
given (in profilePath, register, shadow) are based on this
- directory. This setting is useful if if you Zebra server
+ directory. This setting is useful if your Zebra server
is running in a different directory from where
<literal>zebra.cfg</literal> is located.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>passwd: <replaceable>file</replaceable></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies a file with description of user accounts for Zebra.
+ The format is similar to that known to Apache's htpasswd files
+ and UNIX' passwd files. Non-empty lines not beginning with
+ # are considered account lines. There is one account per-line.
+ A line consists of fields separate by a single colon character.
+ First field is username, second is password.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>passwd.c: <replaceable>file</replaceable></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies a file with description of user accounts for Zebra.
+ File format is similar to that used by the passwd directive except
+ that the password are encrypted. Use Apache's htpasswd or similar
+ for maintenanace.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>perm.<replaceable>user</replaceable>:
+ <replaceable>permstring</replaceable></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Specifies permissions (priviledge) for a user that are allowed
+ to access Zebra via the passwd system. There are two kinds
+ of permissions currently: read (r) and write(w). By default
+ users not listed in a permission directive are given the read
+ priviledge. To specify permissions for a user with no
+ username, or Z39.50 anonymous style use
+ <literal>anonymous</literal>. The permstring consists of
+ a sequence of characters. Include character <literal>w</literal>
+ for write/update access, <literal>r</literal> for read access.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>dbaccess <replaceable>accessfile</replaceable></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Names a file which lists database subscriptions for individual users.
+ The access file should consists of lines of the form <literal>username:
+ dbnames</literal>, where dbnames is a list of database names, seprated by
+ '+'. No whitespace is allowed in the database list.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>
<screen>
- profilePath: /usr/local/yaz
+ profilePath: /usr/local/idzebra/tab
attset: bib1.att
simple.recordType: text
simple.database: textbase
</para>
<para>
- (see <xref linkend="data-model"/>
+ (see <xref linkend="grs-record-model"/>
for details of how the mapping between elements of your records and
searchable attributes is established).
</para>