A shortest list of stsadm to control wss 3.0 search service
- stsadm -o spsearch -action list
list of all the current WSS Search service settings - stsadm -o spsearch -action stop
stop WSS Search service - stsadm -o spsearch -action stop [-f]
stop WSS Search service and remove all index files - stsadm -o spsearch -action start
start WSS Search service - Stsadm -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstart
start a full crawl of content - Stsadm -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstop
stop a full crawl of content