From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 24 13:16:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA13578 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:16:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.hsc.wvu.edu (www.hsc.wvu.edu [157.182.105.122]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA13524; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:16:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jsigmon@localhost) by www.hsc.wvu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA16835; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:18:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 16:17:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremy Sigmon To: "Andrew N. Edmond" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: WWW Search Engine? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Andrew N. Edmond wrote: > I am trying to provide a WWW search engine on my FreeBSD box, and have > installed Excite (in it's current incarnation, it doesn't work even with > the 2.2 kernel - well, it does, but not on a 250meg WWW directory) and am > told that the new version (coming out in 2 weeks) will not be > significantly improved software design-wise. Harvest is a convoluted > mess... are there other search engine options for FreeBSD? > > Andy On our site we use swish to index it and wwwwais to search this index file. We reindex every night to remain up to date. Works great! and its Fast. Ours site is only 70 megs, but is growing rapidly. > > ........................................................................... > . Andrew Edmond ..... American Libertarian ** VOTE ** . > .. edmond@lycaeum.org ..... End the War on Drugs .. > ... University of Wyoming ..... HARRY BROWNE FOR PRESIDENT / 1996 ... > .... Botany Department ....... http://www.harrybrowne96.org/ .... > ....................... the Lycaeum ....................................... > > -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > Version: 2.6.2 > > mQCNAzGauk0AAAEEANjORiZVrD98GS+vkJv+36CLC5Agifk8ra61i3i+Ms2115uK > 9WoeUBA2J9QkjG+dM6tEOkPtrnZFkahFbOsDT0Rh46eBktdAp7IXY5M2zN4r1bWt > x6w4b//ffkfRbrTinovxXYLJa5oASudlQbNkVpqAOAH1fdTO3xFsi69/gtsxAAUR > tCJBbmRyZXcgRWRtb25kIDxlZG1vbmRAbHljYWV1bS5vcmc+tBBBbmRyZXcgTi4g > RWRtb25k > =l080 > -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- > ====================================================================== Jeremy Sigmon B.S. ChE | Web Developer of the Robert C. Byrd Health | Use Sciences Center of West Virginia University | FreeBSD WWW.HSC.WVU.EDU | Now Graduate Student in Computer Science | Office : 293-1060 |