As many of you might have noticed (but no one emailed me to let me know) the content index fried itself on Friday because we had a power fail and I f'd up the configuration of the UPS monitoring software such that as soon as the UPS reported the outage, the software replied that it was ok to shut off. Killed the server before it had time to shut down. The system was apparently updating the content index at that instant and it must have written some garbage 'cause it didn't want to come back up. Once I noticed the problem, I deleted the old context index and started a new one, but the web server couldn't find it because I forgot how to configure it to be a web server index and I couldn't find the docs. I have this really great book on running an NT server that has EVERYTHING in it... except how to configure the index service for use with the web server. And at about that point, I had to leave to take my wife to a doctors appointment and then I had a consulting job until 10pm. Saturday AM I had to take my teenaged step-son to an archeology dig (he is in college studying to be a paleontologist) and then take the rest of the family to a birthday party, then pick up the teenager, take the car to the brake shop, then the consulting job again, then collapse, then Sunday morning... well you get the idea. I'm busier than a two tailed tomcat in a rocking chair QA dept and family does come first. Now if I was getting paid to run this site... Well I don't expect I ever will be. As it is, the contributions and the consignment fees for sale of items made by members don't cover the bandwidth, and I don't want to accept sponsors who attach strings to the $$$. I eventually found some stuff on the net (that's one of the good things about NT and other "older" operating systems, you can find everything you need on the net.) and I just fixed the darn thing. Sorry about the outage over the weekend. It's back up. --- James Newton, webmaster piclist.com (former Admin #3) mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com 1-619-652-0593 VM 1-208-279-8767 FAX PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.com or .org -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.