Re: start-stop-daemon, postgresql, and options
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Running a locally-compiled postgresql 7.0.3, I'm still trying to get it
> to start up automatically at boot time. The trick is, of course, to get
> it to start as user postgres instead of root.
>
> I've got it mostly working, using start-stop-daemon; the command is:
>
> start-stop-daemon --start <path> --exec <path> --chuid postgres
My /etc/init.d/posgresql uses start-stop-daemon to launch
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-startup which handles a lot of the
details of running postgresql.
Does your locally-compiled version come with that script?
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