From: Peter E. <ei...@ha...> - 2005-02-13 11:28:54
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Bruce Smith wrote: >>I'm about to replace my old RH based firewall with devil-linux. >>For traffic accounting I intend to use ipac-ng with postgres storage. >> >>Now the problem is that postgres won't start with the provided init >>script unless I change the shell of the postgres user in /etc/passwd >>from 'false' to 'bash'. >>I check the settings on my Gentoo box and to my surprise also there the >>postgres user has a bash login shell. So my question is if it is OK to >>leave it that way or it there is a differnet way to get postgres running. >> >> > >I checked a SuSE 9.2 system, and the postgres user also has a shell of >bash. It sounds like a devil-linux bug. > Thanks for the confirmation > Change the shell on your user >and make sure the account has a deactivated password (can't login). > > Did that. Thanks, Peter |