Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:21:32 -0800 From: "Ed Zwart" <ed.zwart@gmail.com> To: "Jon Wolfgang" <jon-bsd@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: searching archives broken? Message-ID: <6660f1280703101821s4390d297ga416edb9d6a03fa4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45F35767.7040905@comcast.net> References: <6660f1280703101251w1fac7df7xc1d0eb23b22dafc9@mail.gmail.com> <45F35767.7040905@comcast.net>
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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@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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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