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From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org>
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Thread-Topic: Running two daemon instances -- rc.d or not?
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I need to set up a server with two instances of SphinxSearch searchd
(listening on different ports, of course).

What's a good way to do it?

Copying /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch to
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sphinxsearch2 and editing that doesn't feel very
attractive.

tnx
tom