<code>
# Источник пользователей
source peoplesSource : lsParentSource
{
        sql_query               = \
                        SELECT user_id, user_login, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(user_date_register) as user_date_register \
                        FROM prefix_user \
                        WHERE user_date_register>=$start AND user_date_last<=$end

        sql_query_range         = SELECT MIN(user_id),MAX(user_id) FROM prefix_user
        sql_range_step          = 5000

}

индекс пользователей
index peoplesIndex
{
        # Источник, который будет хранить данный индекса
        source                  = peoplesSource
        path                    = /var/index/peoples/

        # Тип хранения аттрибутов
        docinfo                 = extern

        mlock                   = 0

        # Используемые морфологические движки
        morphology              = stem_enru, soundex, metaphone

        # Кодировака данных из источника    
        charset_type            = utf-8


        # Из данных источника HTML-код нужно вырезать
        html_strip                              = 1
}

</code>

Этого программного обеспечения нет в репозитариях Fedora Linux.
Вы можете собрать его в домашней директории пользователя.

#!/bin/sh
#
# $FreeBSD: ports/textproc/sphinxsearch/files/sphinxsearch.sh.in,v 1.4 2008/04/27 08:50:49 miwi Exp $
#
# PROVIDE: sphinxsearch
# REQUIRE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: shutdown

#
# Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf to enable sphinxsearch:
#
# sphinxsearch_enable="YES"
#
# Other rc.conf variables:
#
# sphinxsearch_conffile="/usr/local/etc/sphinx.conf"
#                          -- path to config file
# sphinxsearch_pidfile="/var/run/sphinxsearch/searchd.pid"
#                          -- location of pidfile: must match setting
#                             in ${sphinxsearch_conffile}
# sphinxsearch_user="_sphinx"
#                          -- user to run searchd as
# sphinxsearch_group="_sphinx"
#                          -- group to run searchd as
# sphinxsearch_logdir="/var/log/sphinxsearch"
#                          -- directory searchd writes logs to
#
. /etc/rc.subr

name=sphinxsearch
rcvar=`set_rcvar`

load_rc_config ${name}

: ${sphinxsearch_enable="NO"}
: ${sphinxsearch_conffile="/usr/local/etc/sphinx.conf"}
: ${sphinxsearch_pidfile="/var/run/sphinxsearch/searchd.pid"}
: ${sphinxsearch_user="_sphinx"}
: ${sphinxsearch_group="_sphinx"}
: ${sphinxsearch_logdir="/var/log/sphinxsearch"}

command=/usr/local/sbin/searchd
pidfile=${sphinxsearch_pidfile}
required_files=${sphinxsearch_conffile}
start_precmd=sphinxsearch_prestart

sphinxsearch_prestart ()
{
    piddir=$(dirname ${sphinxsearch_pidfile})
    if [ ! -d ${piddir} ]; then
	mkdir -m 755 -p ${piddir}
	chown -R ${sphinxsearch_user}:${sphinxsearch_group} ${piddir}
    fi
    if [ ! -d ${sphinxsearch_logdir} ]; then
	mkdir -m 755 -p ${sphinxsearch_logdir}
	chown -R ${sphinxsearch_user}:${sphinxsearch_group} \
	    ${sphinxsearch_logdir}
    fi
}

case "${sphinxsearch_flags}" in
    *--config\ *)
    echo "Warning \$sphinxsearch_flags includes --config option." \
	"Please use \$sphinxsearch_conffile instead."
    ;;
    *)
    sphinxsearch_flags="--config ${sphinxsearch_conffile} ${sphinxsearch_flags}"
    ;;
esac

run_rc_command "$1"

source lsParentSource
{
        type            = mysql
        sql_host        = your_database_host
        sql_user        = your_database_login
        sql_pass        = your_database_password
        sql_db          = your_database_name
        sql_port        = 3306
        # Для ускорения работы прописываем путь до MySQL-го UNIX-сокета (чтобы 
        # операции с БД происходили не через TCP/IP стек сервера)
        sql_sock        = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
    
        
        mysql_connect_flags     = 32 # 32- включение сжатие при обмене данными с БД
    
        # Включам нужную кодировку соединения и выключаем кеш запросов
        sql_query_pre                   = SET NAMES utf8
        sql_query_pre                   = SET SESSION query_cache_type=OFF    
}


# Источник топиков
source topicsSource : lsParentSource
..................................
#######################
#
# Описываем индексы
#
#######################

index topicsIndex
.....
index usersIndex
.....

source lsParentSource

# Источник топиков
source topicsSource : lsParentSource

define('SEARCH_ENTITY_PREFIX','site1');

source testing-index
{
	type = mysql
	sql_host = localhost
	sql_user = user
	sql_pass = 123
	sql_db = search_test
	sql_port = 3306

  # main document fetch query
  # mandatory, integer document ID field MUST be the first selected column
	sql_query = SELECT id, header_ru, text_ru FROM category
	sql_attr_uint    = header_ru
	sql_attr_uint    = text_ru	
 
  # document info query, ONLY for CLI search (ie. testing and debugging)
  # optional, default is empty
  # must contain $id macro and must fetch the document by that id
  sql_query_info    = SELECT * FROM category WHERE id=$id
}

index testing-index
{
  # document source(s) to index
  # multi-value, mandatory
  # document IDs must be globally unique across all sources
  source      = testing-index

  # index files path and file name, without extension
  # mandatory, path must be writable, extensions will be auto-appended
  path      = d:/webservers/home/sphinx/index

  # document attribute values (docinfo) storage mode
  # optional, default is 'extern'
  # known values are 'none', 'extern' and 'inline'
  docinfo      = extern

  # memory locking for cached data (.spa and .spi), to prevent swapping
  # optional, default is 0 (do not mlock)
  # requires searchd to be run from root
  mlock      = 0

  # morphology   = stem_en, stem_ru, soundex
  morphology    = stem_en

  # minimum indexed word length
  # default is 1 (index everything)
  min_word_len    = 1

  charset_type    = utf-8
  html_strip    = 1
  stopwords    = d:\webservers\home\sphinx\stop_words.txt
}