| From: | "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)lan2wan(dot)com> |
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| To: | David Hartwig <daybee(at)bellatlantic(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Edmund Mergl <E(dot)Mergl(at)bawue(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] [Fwd: PostgreSQL - Desparate!] |
| Date: | 1998-08-03 00:46:35 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.00.9808022041450.1531-100000@dragosani.lan2wan.com |
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On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, David Hartwig wrote:
> This happens to us whenever the cleaning lady gets behind the server and
> kicks the plug. We put wrapper script around the postmaster to clean up
> these and any orphaned sort files. My guess is that the "rm /tmp/*" at
> boot time does not remove the hidden dot files.
I put a line in rc.sysinit to explictly remove any .s.PGSQL* files (right
after the line that deletes old PID and .X files). Haven't had a problem
starting up the postmaster since doing so. If you need to remove hidden
dot files, you need to use 'rm /tmp/.*' -- you need the leading dot.
Brett W. McCoy
http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy/
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