NAME
  glimpseserver - a server version of the glimpse searching package.

OVERVIEW
  Glimpse is an indexing and query system that allows you to search through
  all your files very quickly.  The use of glimpse in servers that handle
  frequent queries is growing, which is why we wrote glimpseserver to make
  searches more efficient.  Glimpseserver starts a process that listens to
  queries, runs glimpse, and sends the answers back.  The main advantage is
  that the index is read only once into memory saving a lot of IO.  Glimpse
  communicates with glimpseserver through a given port number.  See the warn-
  ing about security below.

SYNOPSIS
  glimpseserver [ -H dir -K port -J host.  ]

DESCRIPTION

  -H dir
       specifies the directory of the index.  Similar to the -H option of
       glimpse.  The default directory is the home directory (~).

  -K port
       this is the TCP port for communication: glimpseserver waits for
       requests on this port and clients that want to search using the index
       in specified by the -H option must use this port (by calling glimpse
       -K).  The defaults port number is 2001.

  -J host
       the name of the host.  The default is the host where glimpseserver is
       running, which is probably the only possibility anyway.

RESTARTING

  If a new index is created by running glimpseindex every night, restarting a
  new glimpseserver is now easier: simply send a SIGUSR2 (signal #31 - i.e.,
  "kill -31 pid") to glimpseserver; it then re-reads the NEW index and is
  ready to serve requests again. (A SIGHUP, i.e., signal #1, can also be sent
  instead of SIGUSR2 to make the glimpseserver re-read the new index.) The
  recommended way to do a fresh indexing while the server is still running
  is:
  send SIGSTOP to glimpseserver
  do the indexing
  send SIGUSR2 to glimpseserver
  send SIGCONT to glimpseserver (to ask it to continue after stop)
  The SIGSTOP is required so that glimpseserver doesn't answer any queries
  while the indexing is going on.

WARNING

  Glimpseserver should be used only for public servers.  Any client that
  knows the port number can get any information available in the index (and

AUTHORS
  Udi Manber and Burra Gopal, Department of Computer Science, University of
  Arizona, and Sun Wu, the National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan. (Email:
  glimpse@cs.arizona.edu)