On 27/07/2008, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrej, Hi Rich,
> I found the thread in the archives for June of this year. > > Re-reading the posted results of running initdb I tried a different > approach to starting the server. Instead of using pg_ctl I used 'postgres > -D > /var/lib/pgsql/data &' (while logged in as user postgres, of course.) That > cleaned up a bad shutdown (when I had to reboot the system after it hung), > fixed the missing socket, and replaced the .pid. So, it's up and running > once again. > > My question is how best to modify the startup script so the postmaster > fires up when the system is rebooted. I don't see an option to 'su' to > specify the postgres user's password so I can script this. Have you any > recommendation? Since Slackware doesn't use the SysV style of inits but default the easiest way for you to achieve an automatic start-up of postgres on reboot would be to add something like if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.postgres ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.postgres start fi to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local > Thanks, > > Rich Cheers, Andrej -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general