In order to launch Alkaline as a daemon, you must run it from the directory that contains
the aliases
subdirectories, which in their turn contain asearch.cnf files and siteidx indexes.
The command line syntax is:
asearch [options] [host:]port path1 [path2 [...]]
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For example:
The
port
must be a positive number. It must be unused by any other process.
If you have multiple network cards, you can specify a host entry. For example
asearch foo.bar.com:8080 foo bar
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The
paths
must be relative and be subfolders of the current directory. If this is
not the case, they will not be searchable.
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On UNIX, you can detach the Alkaline process (so it is not killed after
you close the terminal or telnet session) by running:
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