searching archives broken?
Jon Wolfgang
jon-bsd at comcast.net
Mon Mar 12 23:05:38 UTC 2007
Ed Zwart wrote:
> Jon, where are you searching from? The link I gave in my initial
> question does not have the 'recent' limiter you mentioned.
>
> thanks
>
> e.
>
> On 3/10/07, Jon Wolfgang <jon-bsd at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Ed Zwart 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?
>> >
>> > e.
>> I have noticed this too. The "fix" I found is changing the search field
>> from "all" to "recent". For example, if I search for "mount", and
>> search all, nothing is displayed. However, searching for "mount" with
>> recent selected, returns results. I think it has to do with how many
>> results it finds. Hope this helps,
>> Jon
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>
I am searching from the page
http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists
I can't get to the page linked in your first message right now for some
reason.
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