Ugh, I feel stupid. I forgot that I changed computers and for some
reason my Mac didn't name my home directory after my real name so I
entered the wrong directory in the config. Anyways, I got that working
but I ran into another problem. When I try and create a new record
that is being indexed by TS, I get this exception:

Permission denied - /Users/xx/xx/log/searchd.pid

On Dec 26, 2:12 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> You really shouldn't need to use sudo - especially on your dev machine. 
> What's the permissions on the log folder? There's not an existing searchd.pid 
> file in there, is there? If there is, what's the permissions on that?
>
> Also, what happens if you run that command without the --pidfile argument?
>
> --
> Pat
>
> On 26/12/2010, at 9:07 PM, Mike C wrote:
>
>
>
> > I get this error:
>
> > FATAL: failed to create pid file '/Users/xx/xx/log/searchd.pid': No
> > such file or directory
>
> > The directory exists though and I used sudo.
>
> > On Dec 26, 1:38 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi Mike
>
> >> What happens when you run (assuming from within the Rails project 
> >> directory):
>
> >>   searchd --config config/development.sphinx.conf --pidfile
>
> >> --
> >> Pat
>
> >> On 26/12/2010, at 8:33 PM, Mike C wrote:
>
> >>> I installed sphinx via MacPorts on Mac OSX Snow Leopard, and I'm using
> >>> TS 2.0.1 and Rails 3.0.3. When I try and start TS, I get this:
>
> >>> Failed to start searchd daemon. Check /Users/snibble/Projects/Ruby/
> >>> storychan/log/searchd.log.
> >>> Failed to start searchd daemon. Check /Users/snibble/Projects/Ruby/
> >>> storychan/log/searchd.log
>
> >>> When I try and run searchd by itself, I get this:
>
> >>> Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117)
> >>> Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksyonoff
>
> >>> FATAL: no readable config file (looked in /opt/local/etc/sphinx/
> >>> sphinx.conf, ./sphinx.conf).
>
> >>> I already ran the configure and index tasks, and oddly enough there
> >>> isn't a searchd.log in my log directory.
>
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