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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: Running two daemon instances -- rc.d or not?
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:16:29 -0500, Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote:
> 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.

It should work, though.  If it's "the simplest thing that could possible
work"[1], why not go for it?

[1] http://c2.com/xp/DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork.html