[Unit]
Description=Free open-source SQL full-text search engine.
After=network.target

[Service]
User=_sphinx
Group=_sphinx

PermissionsStartOnly=true # ExecStartPre run from root
ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/sphinx
ExecStartPre=/bin/chown _sphinx:_sphinx /var/run/sphinx

ExecStart=/usr/bin/searchd --nodetach
ExecReload=/usr/bin/searchd --stopwait

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target