The most common way to set up indexing is to have a cron
task execute it every night. For example the following
crontab entry would do it every day at
3:30AM (supposing recollindex is in your
PATH):
30 3 * * * recollindex > /some/tmp/dir/recolltrace 2>&1
Or, using anacron:
1 15 su mylogin -c "recollindex recollindex > /tmp/rcltraceme 2>&1"
As of version 1.17 the Recoll GUI has dialogs to manage
crontab entries for
recollindex. You can reach them from the
→
menu. They only
work with the good old cron, and do not give
access to all features of cron scheduling.
The usual command to edit your
crontab is crontab
-e (which will usually start the
vi editor to edit the file). You may have
more sophisticated tools available on your system.
Please be aware that there may be differences between your usual interactive command line environment and the one seen by crontab commands. Especially the PATH variable may be of concern. Please check the crontab manual pages about possible issues.
