Larry, It's a SQL-server, mine listens for requests on port 5432. Block that if you're not sure that your postgres security is enough. Ralph At 02:44 PM 2/1/2001 -0800, larry a price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a program (postgres) that I want to start in the background >whenever the box goes to a runlevel 2 or higher >what I want to know is if I put the following in /etc/init.d: > > su postgres > nohup postmaster -i >pglog 2>&1 & > exit > >will that create a huge gaping security hole that i'm not aware of , >and if so what don't i know and where would i look to find out? > >thanx much >larry
