Robert Treat wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 12:13, mlw wrote: > > > > My patch only works on the PostgreSQL server code. No changes have been > > made to the initialization scripts. > > > > The patch declares three extra configuration file parameters: > > hbafile= '/etc/postgres/pg_hba.conf' > > identfile='/etc/postgres/pg_ident.conf' > > datadir='/RAID0/postgres' > > > > If we're going to do this, I think we need to account for all of the > files in the directory including PG_VERSION, postmaster.opts, > postmaster.pid. In the end if we can't build so that we are either fully > FHS compliant and/or LSB compliant, we've not done enough work on it.
Woh, how do we move some of those files into /etc or /var/run if we aren't running as root? We certainly don't want to require that. I guess /etc/postgresql will work if that directory is owned by the PostgreSQL superuser, but /var/run will be a problem. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])