My Sharepoint Musings

For various reasons i wont go into it is pretty clear to me that the people who originally set up the search server had never restarted it.. ever. I am having some trouble getting search to function correctly, or even start back up normally after i restarted the search server. What oringally forced me to restart the server was during my morning browsing of the error logs on my servers, i noticed that the search server (MOSS) had no hard drive space left on it's c:\ drive. So after clearing out some *.log files and freeing up alot of space, i tried restarting the server. The error messages i get are as follow: Under Shared Services Administration> Search> Search settings The search service is currently offline. Visit the services on Server page in SharePoint Central Administration to verify whether the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in progress. On the search server (Moss) event log: The database connection string is not available. Event Ty...