Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:20:47 -0500 From: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@earthlink.net> To: "Ed Zwart" <ed.zwart@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: searching archives broken? Message-ID: <20070310172047.09bb2f41.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <6660f1280703101251w1fac7df7xc1d0eb23b22dafc9@mail.gmail.com> References: <6660f1280703101251w1fac7df7xc1d0eb23b22dafc9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:51:03 -0800 "Ed Zwart" <ed.zwart@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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