Thanks Pat, good thinking. While you're here, when we were setting up our deploy script to stop, index, and start sphinx yesterday I ran into something I didn't understand.
Before I start, let me first explain that the way we are using TS is a little out of the ordinary. We don't recreate our config file every time dues to constraints in an external source of the data in the rails app itself, so we stop index start like so run "cd /var/www/rails/gaol/current; RAILS_ENV=production rake thinking_sphinx:stop" run "cd /var/www/rails/gaol/current; RAILS_ENV=production rake thinking_sphinx:index INDEX_ONLY=true" run "cd /var/www/rails/gaol/current; RAILS_ENV=production rake thinking_sphinx:start" When it was trying to start it failed saying something along the lines of it could not start without a PID_FILE description in the searchd section. I'd removed the pid_file descriptor as I'd put it in the sphinx.yml. Putting the pid_file variable back into the production.sphinx.conf in the searchd section solved it. Here's the sphinx file production: searchd_file_path: "/var/www/rails/gaol/shared/sphinx" config_file: "/var/www/rails/gaol/current/config/production.sphinx.conf" searchd_log_file: "/var/www/rails/gaol/shared/log/searchd.log" query_log_file: "/var/www/rails/gaol/shared/log/searchd.query.log" pid_file: "/var/www/rails/gaol/shared/log/searchd.production.pid" How should I have set up the spinx file to tell the ts:start command to use a pid_file described in the sphinx file? Should I have made a section called searchd in the sphinx file thinking about it? V 2009/9/9 Pat Allan <[email protected]>: > > There's no wiki for TS, but if you want to fork the documentation > project from GitHub, perhaps add a page there? > http://github.com/freelancing-god/freelancing-god.github.com/tree/master > > -- > Pat > > On 09/09/2009, at 12:53 PM, vanderkerkoff wrote: > >> >> Hello everyone >> >> I'm going to go through the process of setting up God to monitor >> thinking sphinx. I'll write it all up so it might help someone else >> but if anyone has any experience of doing this then if they could chip >> in I'd be most grateful. >> >> >> So far, this is what I've found on the web. >> >> http://openmonkey.com/articles/2008/09/configuring-god-to-monitor-sphinxs-searchd >> >> Are there any wiki pages that are associated with google groups I >> could use to write it up anyone know? >> >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
