listen variable not properly honored

[m00dawg]

Binary package hint: sphinxsearch

Using 'address = ..' in sphinx.conf throws the following warnings on restart:

root@Blog:/usr/share/doc/sphinxsearch# /etc/init.d/sphinxsearch restart
Restarting sphinxsearch: Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117)
Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksyonoff

using config file '/etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf'...
WARNING: key 'address' is deprecated in /etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf line 221; use 'listen' instead.
listening on 127.0.0.1:9312
sphinxsearch.

However, replacing 'address' with 'listen' causes the variable to be evaluated, but then Sphinx tries to listen on all interfaces:

root@Blog:/usr/share/doc/sphinxsearch# /etc/init.d/sphinxsearch restart
Restarting sphinxsearch: Sphinx 0.9.9-release (r2117)
Copyright (c) 2001-2009, Andrew Aksyonoff

using config file '/etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf'...
listening on 127.0.0.1:9312
listening on all interfaces, port=9312
[Thu Apr 7 13:48:37.660 2011] [19224] FATAL: listen() failed: Address already in use

[m00dawg (tim-moocowproductions)]

Here is the before and after of the relevant parts of /etc/sphinxsearch/searchd.conf:

Works (but gives warning at startup):

searchd
{
 port = 9312
 address = 127.0.0.1
 read_timeout = 5
 max_children = 30
 pid_file = /var/run/searchd.pid
 max_matches = 10000
 log = /var/log/sphinxsearch/searchd.log
 query_log = /var/log/sphinxsearch/query.log
}

Busted:

searchd
{
 port = 9312
 listen = 127.0.0.1
 read_timeout = 5
 max_children = 30
 pid_file = /var/run/searchd.pid
 max_matches = 10000
 log = /var/log/sphinxsearch/searchd.log
 query_log = /var/log/sphinxsearch/query.log
}

This is on Ubuntu 10.04:

root@Blog:/usr/share/doc/sphinxsearch# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

However, I am using the Maverick SphinxSearch since I needed 0.9.9:

root@Blog:/usr/share/doc/sphinxsearch# dpkg -s sphinxsearch
Package: sphinxsearch
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 6816
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.9.9-6
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libmysqlclient16 (>= 5.1.21-1), libpq5 (>= 8.4~0cvs20090328), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Conffiles:
 /etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf 9a2730c97ce6df9a0e1e50c1a5cc6794
 /etc/cron.d/sphinxsearch 777783052b8d2b7feb65ba3a871bb404
 /etc/default/sphinxsearch 7b316964383c0655d108d15b7873e18a
 /etc/init.d/sphinxsearch b771297f2cdc919ebdcc4ba53b2e793e
 /etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx.conf.dist 74f1e28b826675ebff2d9bda71d04169 obsolete
 /etc/sphinxsearch/sphinx-min.conf.dist 7fdfccc7ce0a4f83db420487b9aed837 obsolete
Description: Fast standalone full-text SQL search engine
 Sphinx is a standalone full text search engine, meant to provide fast,
 size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications.
 Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and
 scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data
 either via direct connection to MySQL or PostgreSQL, or using XML pipe
 mechanism (a pipe to indexer in special XML-based format which Sphinx
 recognizes).
 .
 Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL Phrase Index.
Original-Maintainer: Radu Spineanu <email address hidden>