diff --git a/README b/README
index 10fb75c9..335f12ef 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Features:
 - digital fingerprinting and verification
 
 - full text search
-- simple and advanced search
+- simple, advanced and expert search
 - save search criteria
 - tagging emails
 - view, export, restore emails
@@ -34,24 +34,3 @@ Features:
 
 - recognised formats: PST, EML, Maildir, mailbox
 
-
-
-
-
-
-locales under debian: dpkg-reconfigure locales
-
-
-init:
-   indexer --all
-   searchd inditasa
-
-
-indexer delta1 --rotate
-indexer --merge main1 delta1 --rotate --merge-dst-range deleted 0 0
-
-
-
-Enron dataset: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/
-
-
diff --git a/init.d/Makefile.in b/init.d/Makefile.in
index 11aed88d..fdfa2146 100644
--- a/init.d/Makefile.in
+++ b/init.d/Makefile.in
@@ -24,12 +24,13 @@ INSTALL = @INSTALL@
 
 all:
 	sed -e "s%SBINDIR%$(sbindir)%" -e "s%SYSCONFDIR%$(sysconfdir)%" $(srcdir)/rc.piler.in > $(srcdir)/rc.piler
+	sed -e "s%BINDIR%$(bindir)%" -e "s%SYSCONFDIR%$(sysconfdir)%" $(srcdir)/rc.searchd.in > $(srcdir)/rc.searchd
 
 
 install:
 
 clean:
-	rm -f rc.piler
+	rm -f rc.piler rc.searchd
 
 distclean: clean
 	rm -f Makefile
diff --git a/init.d/rc.searchd.in b/init.d/rc.searchd.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a858e477
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init.d/rc.searchd.in
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+##
+##
+
+NAME=searchd
+PID_FILE=/var/piler/sphinx/searchd.pid
+PID_NUMBER=`test -f ${PID_FILE} && cat ${PID_FILE}`
+
+start() {
+	echo "starting searchd . . ."
+	su piler -c 'BINDIR/searchd'
+}
+
+stop() {
+	echo "stopping searchd"
+	killall ${NAME}
+}
+
+check_status(){
+        test -f /proc/${PID_NUMBER}/status
+}
+
+case "$1" in
+	start)
+		start;
+   	;;
+
+	stop)
+		stop;
+   	;;
+
+        status)
+                if check_status;
+                 then
+                echo "${NAME} is running."
+                 else
+                echo "${NAME} is not running."
+                fi
+        ;;
+
+	restart)
+		stop;
+		sleep 1;
+		start;
+   	;;
+
+	*)
+		echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|restart|status"
+esac
+