Thanks a lot. Your solution fixed the problem. Glad to be a part of such a
knowledgeable mailing list.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 5:43 PM
> To: root
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Postgres Startup trouble
>
>
> root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> action "Starting PostgreSQL: " su -l $PGUSER -c "$DAEMON start
> -D '$PGDATA' -l $PGLOG"
>
> I dunno what "action" is, but I'll bet that the problem with this script
> is that the arguments of su end up getting scanned twice in the shell
> script, once when action is called and again somewhere inside it,
> so that the stuff after -c ends up looking like multiple arguments to
> su, not just one argument.
>
> If there are only two levels of scanning, it might work to say
>
> action "Starting PostgreSQL: " su -l $PGUSER -c "'$DAEMON start
> -D $PGDATA -l $PGLOG'"
>
> The idea here is to substitute for the $-variables the first time
> through, then have a single-quoted string seen by the second rescan.
>
> A complaint to the author of the "action" subroutine might be in order
> too, since his sloppiness is forcing you into some ugly and rather
> error-prone pushups.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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