Re: Unrecognized service: 8.1.3 on Fedora Core 3

Thank you Tom,

To the point, fast, and accurate... Much appreciated.

Regards,

Francois

2006/2/18, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>
> "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?=" <francois(dot)x(dot)hetu(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > if I try at the command line to start the service:
> >> service postgresql start
> > I get:
> >> unrecognized service
>
> Looking at the Fedora "service" script, it seems to want the target file
> to not only exist but be executable:
>
> if [ -x "${SERVICEDIR}/${SERVICE}" ]; then
> env -i LANG=$LANG PATH=$PATH TERM=$TERM "${SERVICEDIR}/${SERVICE}"
> ${OPTIONS}
> else
> echo $"${SERVICE}: unrecognized service" >&2
> exit 1
> fi
>
> So I'm thinking you forgot to set execute permission on the
> postgresql init file.
>
> Having said that ... why don't you use the RPM distribution?
> It contains a vastly more modern init script than this thing
> from contrib.
>
> regards, tom lane
>