NAME

       searchd — socket server handling search requests backed by Sphinx

SYNOPSIS

       searchd [--config CONFIGFILE]  [--cpustats]  [--iostats]  [--index INDEX]  [--port PORT]

       searchd --status [--config CONFIGFILE]  [--pidfile PIDFILE]

       searchd --stop [--config CONFIGFILE]  [--pidfile PIDFILE]

DESCRIPTION

       Sphinx  is  a  collection  of  programs that aim to provide high quality fulltext search. searchd answers
       search requests coming in on a socket.

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program  does  not  have  a
       manual page.  Instead, it has documentation in HTML format, see below.

OPTIONS

       These  programs  follow  the  usual  GNU  command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes
       (`-').  A summary of options is included below.  For a complete description, see the HTML documentation.

       --config  Specify an alternate configuration file to use.

       --cpustats
                 Provide per-query CPU stats in searchd log.

       --iostats Provide per-query I/O stats in searchd log.

       -h           --help
                 Show summary of options.

       --pidfile Used with --status and --stop to find the correct searchd.

       --status  Print status variables of a running searchd.

       --stop    Send SIGTERM to a running searchd.

SEE ALSO

       indexer (1), search (1).

       Sphinx  and  it's  programs  are  documented  fully  by  the  Spinx   reference   manual   available   in
       /usr/share/doc/sphinxsearch.

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page was written by Christian Hofstaedtler ch+debian-packages@zeha.at for the Debian system
       (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
       the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the  Free  Software
       Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL.

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