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[<ro...@su...>]

"man pg_ctl" should tell you what you need to know.

Note especially the references to "-o" and
"postmaster.opts.default".

Cheers,

-- Rod
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

> [Thomas Good] I use Lamar's script (the one in /etc/rc.d/init.d)
> without modification on RH 6.1 and RH 7.0 and it runs sql-ledger fine.
>
> In fact...
>
> ps ax | grep postmaster
> shows:
> /usr/bin/postmaster -i
>
> [Jeff] Thanks for that tip on ps -ax showing the arguments passed. I am
> using RH7.1 and PostgreSQL 7.1.2-5PGDG, installed from the RPMS. My
> '/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgres' script runs with the following arguments:
>
> ps ax | grep postmaster
> shows:
> /usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
>
> So, I guess I need to find out where in this init.d line the '-i'
> should be placed.
>
> su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pgctl  -D $PGDATA -p
> /usr/bin/postmaster start > /dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null
>
> placing -i on either side of the 'start', or before the -D causes the
> init.d script to fail startup.
>
> Thanks for the iterative help here. This mailing list is pretty
> responsive.