Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 23:47:32 +0100 From: hw@thor.shn.com (Henning Wickhorst) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting postgres at bootup Message-ID: <199703032247.XAA13367@thor.shn.com>
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Henning Wickhorst (hw@thor.shn.com) wrote:
: Hi,
:
: I' m running postgresql V6.0 on a FreeBSD Box (V2.1.0-R).
: But i found no way to start the postmaster while booting.
:
: The postmaster daemon has to run under uid 'postgres'.
:
: I put this line into the 'rc.local' file :
: /bin/echo "/u/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D/u/pgsql/data > \
: /u/pgsql/server.log 2>&1 &" | /usr/bin/su - postgres
: But the postmaster dies with signal 11 at bootup.
I found the solution:
/bin/echo "/u/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D/u/pgsql/data > \
/u/pgsql/server.log 2>&1 &" | /usr/bin/su - postgres
^
|
This dash was causing the problem. I took it away and eyerything
works fine.
Does anybody know what this dash is exactly doing ?
Regards,
Henning
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