Re: RedHat startup script and environment variables in 7.1.2?

Steve Wampler wrote:
>
> It looks as though the init.d script "postgres" supplied with
> 7.1.2 no longer propagates environment variables to pg_ctl. Was that
> an intentional change? Or is this something no one else sees?
>
> I put databases off on their own partition, away from /var/lib/pgsql.
> In the base, all I had to do was add:

Sigh, "In the *past*,..."

> export SOLISDB=.....
>
> into /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgres to use createdb --location SOLISDB
>
> but I just noticed that this isn't working with 7.1.2. Instead, I
> have to put the export directly into /usr/bin/pg_ctl - which I'm not
> particularly fond of doing.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Steve Wampler- SOLIS Project, National Solar Observatory
> swampler(at)noao(dot)edu

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Steve Wampler- SOLIS Project, National Solar Observatory
swampler(at)noao(dot)edu