Sphinx Search Engine

Actually for the past 3 days i have just left it running
but when i come and notice the plugin page next day morning ,it has stopped automatically, it has happened consecutively for 3 days..

Can you post searchd log for past few days? It should be visible there whether it’s normally shut down or it crashes. Perhaps some other script kills it once a day or something like this.

is their any command to restart it for safety issues…?

I wouldn’t say there’s a command, but this can be implemented with a special script which will monitor whether searchd is running and start searchd when it’s not running. If you have an admin he should know such things as watch-dog scripts (e.g. https://blog.eracc.com/2010/05/08/linux-monitor-a-service-with-a-watchdog-script/). If you don’t – we can help you ([email protected]).

we are trying to install the same plugin in another domain but it shows a warning
Warning: assert() [function.assert]: Assertion failed in /home/salemdt5/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-sphinx-plugin/php/sphinxapi.php on line 596

What version of plugin and wp do you have there? Does it happen with any query?

hi ivinco
my searchd.log file
i would look forward to watchdog-script,
is their any php script or any cron job for restarting the daemon?

with regards
Ezhil

Ezhil:

I see that searchd didn’t crash, it was stopped normally:

[Sun Nov 28 23:10:48.515 2010] [32574] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

and it was last started on Nov 28:

[Sun Nov 28 23:10:48.525 2010] [32716] accepting connections

Did you have any problems since then?

also smth is wrong with query/searchd logs:

[Mon Nov 29 12:53:30.611 2010] [32716] WARNING: failed to reopen log file ‘/home/flexlear/public_html/sphinx/var/log/searchd.log’: No such file or directory
[Mon Nov 29 12:53:30.611 2010] [32716] WARNING: failed to reopen query log file ‘/home/flexlear/public_html/sphinx/var/log/query.log’: No such file or directory

and pipe():

[Mon Nov 29 23:18:08.122 2010] [32716] WARNING: pipe() failed (error=Too many open files)
[Mon Nov 29 23:18:08.123 2010] [32716] WARNING: pipe() failed (error=Too many open files)
[Mon Nov 29 23:18:14.803 2010] [32716] WARNING: pipe() failed (error=Too many open files)
[Mon Nov 29 23:18:14.804 2010] [32716] WARNING: pipe() failed (error=Too many open files)

Perhaps per-user/per-process limits should be tuned (ulimit -n, ulimit -p etc.)

today morning the search was not working in my site,
but in the settings page it showed that it was still running,

i stopped and restarted it, then only search is working in my site.

is their a cron to set for it to restart it after 6hrs every day.

is their a cron to set for it to restart it after 6hrs every day.

I guess smth like this can be used:
if [ ps aux|grep searchd|grep -v grep|wc -l -eq 0 ]; then /path/to/searchd -c /path/to/sphinx.conf; fi;

You can run this by cron each 5 or 10 minutes or smth like this.

I guess smth like this can be used:
if [ ps aux|grep searchd|grep -v grep|wc -l -eq 0 ]; then /path/to/searchd -c /path/to/sphinx.conf; fi;

You can run this by cron each 5 or 10 minutes or smth like this.

i dont know wat is ‘smth’

do i have to run the entire comman in cron if [ ps aux|grep searchd|grep -v grep|wc -l -eq 0 ]; then /path/to/searchd -c /path/to/sphinx.conf; fi;

i just tried the entire command above
i got error like this..

/bin/sh: line 0: [: missing]’
wc: invalid option — e
Try wc --help' for more information.

the cron i set
if [ ps aux|grep searchd|grep -v grep|wc -l -eq 0 ]; then /home/flexlear/public_html/sphinx/bin/searchd -c /home/flexlear/public_html/sphinx/etc/sphinx.conf; fi;

error like this..

/bin/sh: line 0: [: missing]’
wc: invalid option — e
Try wc –help’ for more information.

You might want to put this into some file.sh and run the latter in cron.

I tried to use sphinx search for my website but i am unable to run sphinx search server through wordpress it gives me following error:

“Can not start searchd, try to start it manually.
Command: /home/archives/public_html/wp-content/uploads/sphinx/bin/searchd –config /home/archives/public_html/wp-content/uploads/sphinx/sphinx.conf”

and when i tried to run it manually on my Centos machine it said command not found.

What is the plugin version?

when i tried to run it manually on my Centos machine it said command not found.

Try to run this command with superuser privileges:

sudo /home/archives/public_html/wp-content/uploads/sphinx/bin/searchd --config /home/archives/public_html/wp-content/uploads/sphinx/sphinx.conf


Did you try to run ‘Configuration Wizard’ to install Sphinx?

What is the plugin version?

The Plugin version is 2.1

Try to run this command with superuser privileges:

I ran the command with root , having superuser privileges

Did you try to run ‘Configuration Wizard’ to install Sphinx?

Yes i try it through Configuration Wizard

Does /home/archives/public_html/wp-content/uploads/sphinx/bin/searchd
exist?

Does /home/archives/public_html/wp-content/uploads/sphinx/bin/searchd
exist?

Yes it exists when i ran other files of this folder like “search” it executes normally but searchd didn’t.

This is strange. So /home/archives/public_html/wp-content/uploads/sphinx/bin/searchd exists, but when you run it even under root it’s said the command not found? Can you provide output of ‘ls -la /home/archives/public_html/wp-content/uploads/sphinx/bin/searchd’ ?