yacy installation

Mon 28 October 2013

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I have some troubleshoot installing one of my prefered web search engine yacy . My best advise would be to install in on a debian running computer. The package is OK, the default configuration run well, and you just start is as every other service

start it with service yacy start
update your running level configuration with `update-rc.d <http://www.unix.com/man-page/All/8/update-rc.d/>`__
access other configurations with dpkg-reconfigure yacy and by accessing http://localhost:8090 with your prefered web browser
if running on remote computer, you must first set admin passord (dpkg-reconfigure is your friend) before modifying configuration through the web interface .

But as you can imagine, I also try to run it on my archlinux . This is not as easy to make it run on an archlinux . It is available trough AUR .

I never succeed to make it work as require (using systemd , systemctl and all that stuff). So I deactivated it (as usual when I install a deamon, because I want to start them manually), and I start it throught the command nice /opt/yacy/yacy start . To know this command, I looked at init script, and run it separatly. It worked. It was Ok for me, I never try to make more clean startup script.

Yes I use a nice because I don’t want my computer to prioritise a non interactive process while I’m using it.

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