Hi i sucessfully started up postmaster with : In RedHat Linux edit file /etc/inittab to add the following as a single line: pg:2345:respawn:/bin/su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D/usr/local/pgsql/data >> /usr/local/pgsql/server.log 2>&1 </dev/null" but the problem is i want to start up postmaster with the "-i" option and i just tried adding a "-i" after postmaster in the above script but that would not work does anyone know what i could do to this script to add the -i option to postmaster? thanks Brent