From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 6 10:48:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB2237B401; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 10:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (baerenklau.de.freebsd.org [195.185.195.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F83543F75; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 10:48:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@panke.de.FreeBSD.org) Received: from baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (localhost.de.freebsd.org [127.0.0.1])h66HmsCx006780; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:48:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from uucp@localhost)h66HmnCf006771; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:48:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by paula.panke.de.freebsd.org (8.12.9/8.12.6) id h66HRTjD004106; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:27:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wosch) Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 19:27:29 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Bill Moran Message-ID: <20030706192729.B4073@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> References: <20030704144055.GA31654@teddy.fas.com> <3F059A3A.60309@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3F059A3A.60309@potentialtech.com>; from wmoran@potentialtech.com on Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:16:10AM -0400 cc: webmaster@freebsd.org cc: stan cc: doc@freebsd.org cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Is the mailing list search system broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 17:48:57 -0000 On 2003-07-04 11:16:10 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > stan wrote: > > I can't seem to get any results, no matter what I search for. > > Is this broken? > > It certainly appears so ... your email is about the fifth complaining > of this in the last 48 hours. > > A few temporary workarounds are: > 1) Go to the mailman home page for the particular list you want to > search and use that local search. For example: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ > 2) Use the advanced search on a search engine (such as google) > > I've cc'd the webmaster and doc@ as I have yet to see any response that > anyone is looking in to this. It's quite possible that the folks > responsible for this have yet to be alerted to the breakage. If fixing > the general search page will take some time, I'd be willing to generate > a patch to redirect users from that page to individual search pages for > the lists. hi, the search seems to work again after the weekly rebuild of the mailing list index. I don't know why it was broken ... -Wolfram -- Wolfram Schneider http://wolfram.schneider.org