Re: Question: script to start DB on server reboot

On 09/06/2003 07:40 Aurangzeb M. Agha wrote:

> I have a site hosted by an ISP which, for one reason or another, often
> needs to restart their server after upgrades, maintenance, etc... When
> this happens, I need a script to restart my server and my Java processes.
> While I've got the entire script written, I'm having a major problem
> getting the DB to start up due to the permissions on the DB dir.
>
> The dir out of which my application is served has the following contents:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 9 admin admin 4096 Mar 30 14:22 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 admin admin 4096 Mar 31 08:58 ..
> drwx------ 6 postgres postgres 4096 May 19 20:55 DB
> drwxr-xr-x 5 admin admin 4096 Mar 29 02:01 backup
> ...
> drwxr-xr-x 3 admin admin 4096 Mar 28 23:06 lib
>
> Note that my DB dir has 700 permissions for the Postgres user and group.
> This has made it impossible for me to effect any change in this dir when
> the script runs--the script is run on startup by the admin user (this is
> requirement due to the setup by the ISP, and I don't have the power to
> run
> the script as root).
>
> What I need to do is very simple. Before I start any of my other
> processes (Java, Apache, etc...), I want to start up the DB:
>
> 1. Remove postmaster.pid if it exists
> 2. Backup the existing log file
> 3. Start the DB
>
> However, I can't even get into the dir due to its permission structure.
> Is my permission structure for the DB incorrect?
>

Maybe you could get your admin user added to postgres's group then use
0770 permissions for your postgres directory tree. I think that would work.

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