Re: [HACKERS] contrib/start-scripts/linux on Debian

2004-09-07 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
So what is the thinking of HACKERS? Does it make sense to include nothing and rather allow each distribution to support its own? Or should each distribution known to support postgres be invited to submit the relevant script for inclusion? And, if so, should this be a HACKERS [or other

Re: [HACKERS] contrib/start-scripts/linux on Debian

2004-09-05 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Thomas F.O'Connell wrote: I'd love to see a comment added to the linux start-script included in contrib that referenced update-rc.d. It's useful to note because Debian has different runlevels from Red Hat, and update-rc.d will intelligently do

Re: [HACKERS] contrib/start-scripts/linux on Debian

2004-08-27 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
Sure. I didn't know there was a Debian start script. Because we frequently keep up with the latest changes in postgres (which we regularly use), I always build postgres from source. But that would be a perfectly acceptable solution. -tfo On Aug 27, 2004, at 12:45 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

[HACKERS] contrib/start-scripts/linux on Debian

2004-08-26 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
I'd love to see a comment added to the linux start-script included in contrib that referenced update-rc.d. It's useful to note because Debian has different runlevels from Red Hat, and update-rc.d will intelligently do the same thing as chkconfig for Debian systems. If it's useful, I could post

Re: [HACKERS] contrib/start-scripts/linux on Debian

2004-08-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Thomas F.O'Connell wrote: I'd love to see a comment added to the linux start-script included in contrib that referenced update-rc.d. It's useful to note because Debian has different runlevels from Red Hat, and update-rc.d will intelligently do the same thing as chkconfig for Debian systems.