searching archives broken?
Randy Pratt
bsd-unix at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 10 22:20:48 UTC 2007
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:51:03 -0800
"Ed Zwart" <ed.zwart at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there, I'm new to the list, and have been trying to search the
> archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/. No
> matter what I search for, I get no results (even one-word searches
> that should definitely have hits; eg, 'mail', 'hostname', etc).
>
> I want to search the archives before asking the group, but the archive
> is way too large to make browsing feasible. Is search broken, or am I
> missing something?
I use google to search the FreeBSD site. Do your google search
as usual but add "site:freebsd.org" at the end and it limits the
searches to freebsd.org.
Other operators can be used for google also:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/operators.html
HTH some,
Randy
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