diff --git a/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/CHANGES.txt b/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/CHANGES.txt
index b11e0036f8e..12b7032ee7f 100644
--- a/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 $Id$
 
+2003-04-11 (cmarschner)
+	* fixed build issues
+
 2002-06-18 (cmarschner)
 	* added an experimental version of Lucene storage. see FetcherMain.java for details how to use it
 	  LuceneStorage simply saves all fields as specified in WebDocument. add a converter to the 
diff --git a/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/build.properties.sample b/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/build.properties.sample
deleted file mode 100644
index be18577c6d3..00000000000
--- a/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/build.properties.sample
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-lucene.jar=/usr/local/jakarta-lucene/lucene.jar
-oro.jar=/usr/local/jakarta-oro/oro.jar
-debug=on
diff --git a/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/build.sh b/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/build.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 0b86a7cfa91..00000000000
--- a/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-#clean
-echo cleaning
-rm -r build
-rm -r classes
-rm -r cachingqueue
-rm -r logs
-
-#build
-echo making build directory
-mkdir build
-cd build
-echo extracting http client
-jar xvf ../libs/HTTPClient.zip >/dev/nul
-cd ..
-cp -r src/* build
-mkdir classes
-echo compiling
-javac -g -d classes -sourcepath build build/HTTPClient/*.java
-javac -g -classpath ./libs/jakarta-oro-2.0.5.jar -d classes -sourcepath build build/de/lanlab/larm/fetcher/FetcherMain.java
-
-
diff --git a/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/run.bat b/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/run.bat
deleted file mode 100755
index 71022a9daec..00000000000
--- a/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/run.bat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-rmdir /s /q -r logs
-mkdir logs
-java -server -Xmx400mb -classpath classes;libs/jakarta-oro-2.0.5.jar de.lanlab.larm.fetcher.FetcherMain -start http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/ -restrictto http://.*\.uni-muenchen\.de.* -threads 15  
diff --git a/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/run.sh b/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/run.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index d7ea61890a1..00000000000
--- a/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/run.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-#
-# $Id$
-#
-
-BASE_DIR=./runtime
-LOG_DIR=$BASE_DIR/logs
-CACHE_DIR=$BASE_DIR/cachingqueue
-CLASSPATH=build/classes:libs/jakarta-oro-2.0.5.jar:libs/HTTPClient.zip:/usr/local/jakarta-lucene/lucene.jar
-SLEEP_TIME=2
-
-if [ $# -lt 4 ]
-then
-    echo "Usage: `basename $0` <start url> <score regex> <# threads> <max mem>" >&2
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-START_URL=$1
-SCOPE_REGEX=$2
-THREAD_COUNT=$3
-MAX_MEM=$4
-
-
-echo Removing $LOG_DIR...
-sleep $SLEEP_TIME
-rm -r $LOG_DIR
-echo Removing $CACHE_DIR...
-sleep $SLEEP_TIME
-rm -r $CACHE_DIR
-echo Creating $LOG_DIR
-sleep $SLEEP_TIME
-mkdir -p $LOG_DIR
-echo Creating $CACHE_DIR
-sleep $SLEEP_TIME
-mkdir -p $CACHE_DIR
-
-CMD="java -server -Xmx$MAX_MEM -classpath $CLASSPATH de.lanlab.larm.fetcher.FetcherMain -start $START_URL -restrictto $SCOPE_REGEX -threads $THREAD_COUNT"
-echo Starting LARM with: $CMD
-
-$CMD
diff --git a/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/src/de/lanlab/larm/fetcher/FetcherMain.java b/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/src/de/lanlab/larm/fetcher/FetcherMain.java
index 6a56f90048d..5db26746916 100644
--- a/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/src/de/lanlab/larm/fetcher/FetcherMain.java
+++ b/sandbox/contributions/webcrawler-LARM/src/de/lanlab/larm/fetcher/FetcherMain.java
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ import java.io.*;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.*;
-import javax.swing.UIManager;
 
 
 /**
@@ -206,7 +205,7 @@ public class FetcherMain
         // file number, the offset within that file, and the document's length
 
         // FIXME: default constructor for all storages + bean access methods
-        storage.addDocStorage(new LogStorage(storeLog, /* save in page files? */ false,
+        storage.addDocStorage(new LogStorage(storeLog, /* save in page files? */ true,
                                              /* page file prefix */ "logs/pagefile"));
         storage.addLinkStorage(new LinkLogStorage(linksLog));
         storage.addLinkStorage(messageHandler);
@@ -234,7 +233,10 @@ public class FetcherMain
         // dnsResolver = new DNSResolver();
         hostManager = new HostManager(1000);
         hostResolver = new HostResolver();
-        hostResolver.initFromFile(hostResolverFile);
+        if(hostResolverFile != null && !"".equals(hostResolverFile))
+        {
+            hostResolver.initFromFile(hostResolverFile);
+        }
         hostManager.setHostResolver(hostResolver);
 
 //        hostManager.addSynonym("www.fachsprachen.uni-muenchen.de", "www.fremdsprachen.uni-muenchen.de");
@@ -248,6 +250,10 @@ public class FetcherMain
 
         fetcher = new Fetcher(nrThreads, storage, storage, hostManager);
 
+        urlLengthFilter = new URLLengthFilter(500, lengthLog);
+        
+        //knownPathsFilter = new KnownPathsFilter()
+        
         // prevent message box popups
         HTTPConnection.setDefaultAllowUserInteraction(false);
 
@@ -278,7 +284,7 @@ public class FetcherMain
         messageHandler.addListener(urlScopeFilter);
         messageHandler.addListener(reFilter);
         messageHandler.addListener(urlVisitedFilter);
-        messageHandler.addListener(knownPathsFilter);
+        //messageHandler.addListener(knownPathsFilter);
 
         messageHandler.addListener(fetcher);
 
@@ -484,7 +490,7 @@ public class FetcherMain
         // replaced by HTTPClient
 
         FetcherMain f = new FetcherMain(nrThreads, hostResolverFile);
-        if (showInfo || "".equals(hostResolverFile) || (startURLs.isEmpty() && gui == false))
+        if (showInfo || (startURLs.isEmpty() && gui == false))
         {
             System.out.println("The LARM crawler\n" +
                                "\n" +