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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