Re: OSX 10.3.7 broke Postgresql 8.0.0b5?

> You shouldn't be modifying /etc/rc directly anyway. Create a startup script
> in /Library/StartupItems, or /etc/mach_init.d. I believe the latter is new
> with 10.3 and is now the preferred method. Granted, modifying /etc/rc is a
> lot easier, but you pay for it later when an update wipes out your changes
> and you beat your head against the wall trying to find the problem.

Startup items can no longer change the sysv kernel settings. I forget
whether that is a 10.2 change, or a 10.3 change, but setting them in a
startup item has no effect and hasn't for a pretty long time.

I was not aware of /etc/mach_init.d, a quick glance at the docs make it
obvious that it runs earlier than SystemStarter, looking at /etc/rc shows
that it runs not that much later than the normal settings of the sysv
parameters. Are you sure changing sysv kernel parameters at that point will
work?

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