Re: Starting postmaster (postgresql) at boot time

[Johann Spies <jhspies@alpha.futurenet.co.za>]

On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
> 
>  : How do I get the postgresql (6.3) postmaster to start running from the
>  : start.  ...does not work on my debian machine:
>  : putting it in the inittab-file or putting the postgres.init script in
>  : /etc/rc.d/init.d.

> You need to create symlinks from the /etc/init.d dir to /etc/rc[12345].d
> too. Just have a look how most of the things are managed.

Thanks for your reply. 

I have tried that, without any success.

> Otherwise, create a crontab entry (cron -e -u postgres) for the user running
> postgresql. "@reboot   /path/to/program" will start "program" when starting
> crond.

I have also tried that.  I think it should be crontab -e -u postgres.
                                                  ^^^  
I put the following line in there:

@reboot /usr/local/bin/postmaster -S -o'-e -F'

That also did not do the job.


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