From cd197bb555af41f6dba39c6a19e748ff00d81778 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: orbiter <mc@yacy.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:46:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix for NPE if surrogates do not exist

---
 source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java b/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java
index 0eff8cc9c..16ca11ada 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java
@@ -1973,7 +1973,7 @@ public final class Switchboard extends serverSwitch {
         try {
             // check surrogates
             final String[] surrogatelist = this.surrogatesInPath.list();
-            if ( surrogatelist.length > 0 ) {
+            if ( surrogatelist != null && surrogatelist.length > 0 ) {
                 // look if the is any xml inside
                 for ( final String surrogate : surrogatelist ) {