From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 19 19:19:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11608 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 19:19:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eyelab.psy.msu.edu (eyelab.psy.msu.edu [35.8.64.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA11474 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 02:19:24 GMT (envelope-from root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu) Received: from default (pntcmi137039.voyager.net [209.153.137.39]) by eyelab.psy.msu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA14418; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:18:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu) Message-Id: <199804200218.WAA14418@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> X-Sender: root@eyelab.msu.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:11:30 -0400 To: tom@inna.net From: Gary Schrock Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org search engine Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980419220658.12500@tyger.inna.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:06 PM 4/19/98 -0400, you wrote: >I'm just wondering what search engine FreeBSD.org is using. >Gotta find an indexing search engine. The perl ones that search on the fly >kinda chew up CPU time like its free or something. As far as I could tell by looking at the scripts that it uses to do the searching it's using freewais-sf. After a lot of work I was able to get freewais-sf working for a site I maintain, and I have to admit it does work fairly well. Setting it up in the first place is not exactly trivial too (especially since there's a bug in the program for the file format I use). There is a port for freewais-sf, but figuring out the configuration files for document types isn't exactly trivial (although if you're lucky you can get away with one of the predefined ones, thankfully I was able to coerce my data into one of those formats). Once you get it working it's pretty decent though. Gary Schrock root@eyelab.msu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message