From ea2bd43b28aaf8d9264ab8fc3a454c88ff210465 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Peter Christen <mc@yacy.net>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 12:29:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] patch for broken configurations

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

diff --git a/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java b/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java
index d1246873b..31c907c07 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/search/Switchboard.java
@@ -1012,6 +1012,7 @@ public final class Switchboard extends serverSwitch
         // load network configuration into settings
         String networkUnitDefinition =
             getConfig("network.unit.definition", "defaults/yacy.network.freeworld.unit");
+        if (networkUnitDefinition.length() == 0) networkUnitDefinition = "defaults/yacy.network.freeworld.unit"; // patch for a strange failure case where the path was overwritten by empty string
 
         // patch old values
         if ( networkUnitDefinition.equals("yacy.network.unit") ) {