[Neil Lock]

Would love a little bit of help, if available?

I have tried getting this to work on one of our test forums which currently has about 1.5mil posts and is running vbul 3.5.4 first of all im not sure whether my conf is correct when i run the indexer is it supposed to say

skipping index 'vbfulltext' (distributed indexes can not be directly indexed)...
skipping index 'vbfulltextthread' (distributed indexes can not be directly indexed)...
those are the last 2 results - the dirstributed indexes is that error suppose to be there?

secondly when i run a search --config path qry it appears to work and give back results however upon turning on the searchd i dont seem to get any results the echos on my search.php
Query '' retrieved 0 of 0 matches in 0.000 sec.
Query stats:
'test' found 0 times in 0 documents

and there are no queries on my searchd.log

any starting point suggestions- i guess the searchd isnt being queried however when i switch it off the echo alerts me that searchd is not running? is one of the issues that im using 3.5?

Thanks
Nelly