Re[2]: autostart postgresql

Hello Mike,

Thursday, November 02, 2000, 1:00:51 PM, you wrote:

ME> * Bob Hartung (rwhart(at)netexpress(dot)net) wrote:
>> Partial success!
>> I have postgresql started and have "createdb testdb"
>> successfully. I am having trouble with autostarting
>> postmaster in RH6.2 however.
>>
>> I have copied the file
>> "/usr/local/postgresql-7.0.2.......postgres-init" to
>> /etc/rc.d/init.d and made a softe link to it from .../rc5.d
>> as follows ln /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgres.init
>> /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S98postgres.init
>>
>> postmaster does not autostart upon a reboot. Do I have to
>> use a start command or other paramater to tell postgres.init
>> to start the postmaster up? I am not good at reading and
>> deciphering these scripts but would like postgres to
>> autostart everytime the PC boots to runlevel 5.

ME> You can't run postmaster as root, so to do this I believe you
ME> have to write a wrapper script and give it a postgres (or whatever
ME> your admin account is named) sticky bit.

ME> Is this the 'one true way' for doing this?

ME> Mike

See following (and attached) dump of my init script,
/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql which should be linked to the runlevel
directories as suitable for your system.

This works automatically on my hosts

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#! /bin/sh
# postgresql This is the init script for starting up the PostgreSQL
# server

# Version 6.5.3-2 Lamar Owen
# Added code to determine if PGDATA exists, whether it is current version
# or not, and initdb if no PGDATA (initdb will not overwrite a database).

# chkconfig: 345 85 15
# description: Starts and stops the PostgreSQL backend daemon that handles \
# all database requests.
# processname: postmaster
# pidfile: /var/run/postmaster.pid
#

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Get config.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

# Check that networking is up.
# Pretty much need it for postmaster.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0

[ -f /usr/bin/postmaster ] || exit 0

# This script is slightly unusual in that the name of the daemon (postmaster)
# is not the same as the name of the subsystem (postgresql)

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Checking postgresql installation: "
# Check for the PGDATA structure
if [ -f /var/lib/pgsql/PG_VERSION ] && [ -d /var/lib/pgsql/base/template1 ]
then
# Check version of existing PGDATA

if [ `cat /var/lib/pgsql/PG_VERSION` != '6.5' ]
then
echo "old version. Need to Upgrade."
echo "See /usr/doc/postgresql-6.5.3/README.rpm for more information."
exit 1
else
echo "looks good!"
fi

# No existing PGDATA! Initdb it.

else
echo "no database files found."
if [ ! -d /var/lib/pgsql ]
then
mkdir -p /var/lib/pgsql
chown postgres.postgres /var/lib/pgsql
fi
su -l postgres -c '/usr/bin/initdb --pglib=/usr/lib/pgsql --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql'
fi

# Check for postmaster already running...
pid=`pidof postmaster`
if [ $pid ]
then
echo "Postmaster already running."
else
#all systems go -- remove any stale lock files
rm -f /tmp/.s.PGSQL.* > /dev/null
echo -n "Starting postgresql service: "
su -l postgres -c '/usr/bin/postmaster -i -S -D/var/lib/pgsql'
sleep 1
pid=`pidof postmaster`
if [ $pid ]
then
echo -n "postmaster [$pid]"
touch /var/lock/subsys/postgresql
echo $pid > /var/run/postmaster.pid
echo
else
echo "failed."
fi
fi
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping postgresql service: "
killproc postmaster
sleep 2
rm -f /var/run/postmaster.pid
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/postgresql
echo
;;
status)
status postmaster
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: postgresql {start|stop|status|restart}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0

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Best regards,
Andy mailto:lbc(at)telecam(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk