Pat my friend, you are a life saver. I created the sphinx.yml and added 
the bin path. It now is able to see Sphinx! I've still got some 
troubleshooting to do, but at least it works now!

Thanks again,
  - Jeff

pat wrote in post #981469:
> Hi Jeff
>
> I'm guessing that searchd and indexer aren't in your path by
> default... not sure where Ubuntu puts them, though given your output
> thus far, maybe /usr/local/sphinx/bin?
>
> Thinking Sphinx doesn't create config/sphinx.yml by default - but
> you'll probably need to create it yourself, then add a setting with
> the bin_path pointing to the folder where searchd and indexer are
> located:
>
>   development:
>     bin_path: "/usr/local/sphinx/bin"
>
> If you're running the production environment instead, then you'll want
> to change/add the setting for that as well - the format of sphinx.yml
> is the same as database.yml - settings per environment.
>
> One last thing - you don't want to use the default sphinx.conf -
> Thinking Sphinx doesn't write to that file, it creates a new one, and
> tells Sphinx to reference the new file as well. So make sure you've
> stopped the Sphinx service that references that old file.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Pat

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