rt 4.0.21 (RT#13852)

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/rt/docs/full_text_indexing.pod b/rt/docs/full_text_indexing.pod
index 0952b4eb9..6b0025d62 100644
--- a/rt/docs/full_text_indexing.pod
+++ b/rt/docs/full_text_indexing.pod
@@ -48,8 +48,16 @@ To keep the index up-to-date, you will need to run:
 ...at regular intervals.  By default, this will only tokenize up to 100
 tickets at a time; you can adjust this upwards by passing
 C<--limit 500>.  Larger batch sizes will take longer and
-consume more memory.  Care should be taken to ensure that multiple
-instances of C<rt-fulltext-indexer> are not run at the same time.
+consume more memory.
+
+If there is already an instances of C<rt-fulltext-indexer> running, new
+ones will exit abnormally (with exit code 1) and the error message
+"rt-fulltext-indexer is already running."  You can suppress this message
+and end those processes normally (with exit code 0) using the C<--quiet>
+option; this is particularly useful when running the command via
+C<cron>:
+
+    sbin/rt-fulltext-indexer --quiet
 
 =head1 MYSQL
 
@@ -165,6 +173,15 @@ C<--memory> option:
 
     rt-fulltext-indexer --memory 10M
 
+If there is already an instance of C<rt-fulltext-indexer> running, new
+ones will exit abnormally (with exit code 1) and the error message
+"rt-fulltext-indexer is already running."  You can suppress this message
+and end those processes normally (with exit code 0) using the C<--quiet>
+option; this is particularly useful when running the command via
+C<cron>:
+
+    sbin/rt-fulltext-indexer --quiet
+
 Instead of being run via C<cron>, this may instead be run via a
 DBMS_JOB; read the B<Managing DML Operations for a CONTEXT Index>
 chapter of Oracle's B<Text Application Developer's Guide> for details