Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 29745 invoked by uid 6000); 30 Mar 1998 02:32:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 29516 invoked by uid 24); 30 Mar 1998 02:32:01 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980329180429.009d9540@hyperreal.org> X-Sender: brian@hyperreal.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 18:04:29 -0800 To: new-httpd@apache.org From: Brian Behlendorf Subject: Re: indexing tool... In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org At 05:18 PM 3/29/98 -0800, Dean Gaudet wrote: >Are there any indexing tools that have the following properties: > >- the core executables are installed system-wide, but don't require any >root or special userid usage after that > >- users can build their own search engines trivially without asking root >for help Glimpse is an 80% solution whose missing/broken 20% causes it to be difficult to live with. However, Swish is becoming more attractive every day; fast, small, stable (something that can't be said for glimpse, which was causing some of Organic's servers some problems until we stopped using it), and apparently well-supported. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/ Only downside to your idea is that it doesn't fetch content via HTTP, only the local filesystem; though I can't imagine that'd be hard to implement. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- "Optimism is a strategy for making brian@apache.org a better future." - Noam Chomsky brian@hyperreal.org