$ cd /usr/local/search/lucene-search-2/indexes
$ ls -l
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Aug 20  2013 import
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 Apr 14 06:42 index
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr 14 06:41 search
drwxr-xr-x  9 root root 4096 Aug 20  2013 snapshot
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Aug 20  2013 status
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4096 Aug 20  2013 update

$ ls -l search/
total 24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 70 Feb 12 21:39 wikidb -> /usr/local/search/lucene-search-2/indexes/update/wikidb/20140212064727
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 73 Feb 12 21:39 wikidb.hl -> /usr/local/search/lucene-search-2/indexes/update/wikidb.hl/20140212064727
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Apr 14 06:41 wikidb.links -> /usr/local/search/lucene-search-2/indexes/update/wikidb.links/20140414064150
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 77 Feb 12 21:39 wikidb.prefix -> /usr/local/search/lucene-search-2/indexes/update/wikidb.prefix/20140212064728
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 78 Feb 12 21:39 wikidb.related -> /usr/local/search/lucene-search-2/indexes/update/wikidb.related/20140212064713
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 76 Feb 12 21:39 wikidb.spell -> /usr/local/search/lucene-search-2/indexes/update/wikidb.spell/20140212064740

#!/bin/sh
log=/var/log/lucene-search-2-cron.log
(
  echo "Building wiki lucene-search indexes ..."
  cd /usr/local/search/lucene-search-2
  ./build

  echo "Stopping the lsearchd service..."
  service lsearchd stop

  # ok, so stopping the service apparently doesn't mean that the processes are gone, whack them manually
  # See tip on using the "[x]yz" character class option so you don't need the additional "grep -v xyz":
  #   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3510673/find-and-kill-a-process-in-one-line-using-bash-and-regex
  echo "Killing any lucene-search processes that didn't terminate..."
  kill -9 $(ps -ef | grep '[l]search' | awk '{print $2}')

  echo "Starting the lsearchd service..."
  service lsearchd start

) > $log 2>&1

#!/bin/sh -e
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:             lsearchd
# Required-Start:       $syslog
# Required-Stop:        $syslog
# Default-Start:        2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:         1
# Short-Description:    Start the Lucene Search daemon
# Description:          Provide a Lucene Search backend for MediaWiki. Copied by John Ericson from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t
=1476445
### END INIT INFO

# Set to install directory of lucense-search. For example: /usr/local/lucene-search-2.1.3
LUCENE_SEARCH_DIR="/usr/local/search/lucene-search-2"

# Set username for daemon to run as. Can also use syntax "username:groupname" to also specify group for daemon to run as. For example: me:me
RUN_AS_USER="lsearchd"

OPTIONS="-configfile $LUCENE_SEARCH_DIR/lsearch.conf"

test -x $LUCENE_SEARCH_DIR/lsearchd || exit 0

test -n "$RUN_AS_USER" && CHUID_ARG="--chuid $RUN_AS_USER" || CHUID_ARG=""

if [ -f "/etc/default/lsearchd" ] ; then
    . /etc/default/lsearchd
fi

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

case "$1" in
  start)
    cd $LUCENE_SEARCH_DIR
    log_begin_msg "Starting Lucene Search Daemon..."
    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --chdir $LUCENE_SEARCH_DIR --background $CHUID_ARG --exec $LUCENE_SEARCH_DIR/lsearchd -- $OPT
IONS
    log_end_msg $?
    ;;
  stop)
    log_begin_msg "Stopping Lucene Search Daemon..."
    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry 2 --chdir $LUCENE_SEARCH_DIR $CHUID_ARG --exec $LUCENE_SEARCH_DIR/lsearchd
    log_end_msg $?
    ;;
  restart)
    $0 stop
    sleep 1
    $0 start
    ;;
  reload|force-reload)
    log_begin_msg "Reloading Lucene Search Daemon..."
    start-stop-daemon --stop -signal 1 --chdir $LUCENE_SEARCH_DIR $CHUID_ARG --exec $LUCENE_SEARCH_DIR/lsearchd
    log_end_msg $?
    ;;
  status)
    status_of_proc $LUCENE_SEARCH_DIR/lsearchd lsearchd && exit 0 || exit $?
    ;;
  *)
   log_success_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/lsearchd {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status}"
   exit 1
esac

exit 0

$ ps -ef | grep [l]search
lsearchd 10192     1  0 14:02 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/local/search/lucene-search-2/lsearchd -configfile /usr/local/search/lucene-search-2/lsearch.conf
lsearchd 10198 10192  0 14:02 ?        00:00:01 java -Djava.rmi.server.codebase=file:///usr/local/search/lucene-search-2/LuceneSearch.jar -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=AMWikiBugz -jar /usr/local/search/lucene-search-2/LuceneSearch.jar -configfile /usr/local/search/lucene-search-2/lsearch.conf