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.
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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