I ran the following command line to create an initial index file

/opt/swish-e.x/src/swish-e -S http -c /home/sites/home/web/swish/sw.index.conf

and receive the following response

indexing data source "http: crawler"  and the system hangs..

I ran it this morning and the terminal is still active and it the above state...

Thanks for any assistance.  I am using Linux 5.0 as the OS.

Doug

PS  Thanks to David N. for other assistance.