larry a price 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?
I'm setting up PostgreSQL on my box right now. I just noticed that
you can install postmaster in non-networked mode. If you remove the
"-i" flag, then it doesn't listen to a TCP socket.
That will only work, of course, if your clients are running on the
same host as the database.
Just a thought...
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