Created attachment 453042 [details] searchd.service app-misc/sphinx-2.2.11 has no searchd.service and also doesn't create a sphinx user Using this service requires the following: - creating a 'sphinx' system user - creating /run/sphinx and chown sphinx /run/sphinx This serivce file assumes /etc/sphinx/sphinx.conf being the default config file location and that the pid file is placed in /run/sphinx/searchd.pid Suggestions for improvment: add a searchd-indexer.service or .timer
There's an open bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514852 from 2014 for a user to be added instead of running sphinx as root