[Building Sakai] Help with sharedJournalBase

[Katherine Faella]

Hi,

I am hoping someone can help me with this, I am quite confused.  In our 
sakai.properties we have the following:

sharedJournalBase at org.sakaiproject.search.api.JournalSettings=/sakaimisc/search/sharedJournalBase

We are running 2.5.x in a clustered environment.  My problem is that I 
don't really understand what this property controls.  The directory 
specified currently contains a subdirectory searchjournal which contains 
over 35,000 zip files and seems to be growing.  What event triggers the 
creation of these files? Do they ever get deleted?

Thanks,
Kathy

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Katherine Faella                        tel: (401) 874-4469
Sr. Technical Programmer                kmf at uri.edu
University of Rhode Island
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