Stop Sphinx server

Question

I'm using Sphinx search server(version 'Sphinx 2.0.3-id64-release (r3043)' from http://sphinxsearch.com/) in my Rails app with thinking_sphinx gem. Sphinx starts automatically when I reboot and I can't stop it. I tried sudo searchd --stop but the process just respawns itself.

Answer 1

Stop (as manual start too) requires --config parameter.

If you start sphinx with command searchd --config=file, you can stop it with searchd --config=file --stop. Try to determine your start command argument.

P.S. Better late than never :)

You can also send a signal kill -9