tags 1039380 + patch thanks In addition to the missing sphinxsearch.service unit, I noted another problem with /etc/init.d/sphinxsearch: stopping (or restarting) the service always takes 30 seconds on my system, which is quite annoying if you want to quickly restart the service or reboot the server and you have always to ways until the 30 seconds timeout occurs.
So I decided to create a little sphinxsearch.service, which does the job for my needs. In contrast to /etc/init.d/sphinxsearch it does not check for /etc/default/sphinxsearch (START=yes), but I think that systemctl enable|disable sphinxsearch is a better solution for this. It also does not check whether /etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf exists, but I'm not sure where this is needed for. Maybe this could be helpful for someone else. Greetings Roland
[Unit] Description=Sphinxsearch network daemon Documentation=man:searchd(1) After=network-online.target [Service] Type=forking ExecStartPre=+/bin/mkdir -p /run/sphinxsearch ExecStartPre=+/bin/chown -R sphinxsearch:sphinxsearch /run/sphinxsearch ExecStart=/usr/bin/searchd User=sphinxsearch [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
