In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Sandeep
Gaikwad") transmitted:
> Hello Sir,
> I want to know how to check whether postgres database
> is running or not ? when I give command like ./postmaster -i &,
> whether all databases in that postgres will run or any one [default] ?
> If any one, then how to detect that database ?
Well, the way I usually check on what databases are running is thus:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/mm5/doc> netstat -an | grep PG
Saturday 13:18:30
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 2793
/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432
One could presumably script things further to get more out of that; it
doesn't normally seem worthwhile to do so...
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