'update index in background' not running.

this is a new windows 2003 server/sql server 2000 set up (2-3 days old).
full text is set up and working and definetely added data, andi have update
index in background set.

It seems to have worked for a while, then stopped. The application event log
records events for Microsoft Search as 'Search service has started', 'Search
service has loaded project ...' and 'indexer started successfully for
project..' from yesterday afternoon, about the time that it stopped adding
articles.

There is only one catalog and one table with two fields that are indexed.

since there is data in there it seems to have stopped in the last day or so.
the system is lightly loaded, nothign else going on, and i can see
mssearch.exe in the task list.

where can i look to see why its not loading?

thanks,

john



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