Re: Starting postmaster in rc.local/during bootup

On 3 Dec 2002 at 7:10, Chris Boget wrote:

> On the following page
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?installation.html
>
> It says that I need to su to the user postgres to start postmaster.
> In fact, when I try to start it as user root, it won't let me and that
> is somewhat understandable. But ideally, I'd like it so that user
> postgres does not have a shell (which is what I've done for the
> mysql user I had to set up).

I assume you are doing this in a shell script which gets called from rc.local

#!/bin/bash
su

pgctl -D <blah> start

And it is not working..

How about

su -c "pgctl -D <blah> start"

HTH

Bye
Shridhar

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