Re: pid gets overwritten in OSX

On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 17:05, Francois Suter wrote:
> >The real problem is that the old postmaster was evidently not allowed
> >to shut down cleanly (else it'd have removed its lockfile).  How are
> >you powering down the system, anyway?
>
> I'm shutting down normally (ok, I mean most of the time I press the
> power-up button and choose "Shut down" rather than going via the
> Apple menu). I haven't had a system crash in ages! The only
> difference I can see (and I would have to test if it makes any
> difference) is that sometimes I'm working stand-alone at home and
> sometimes on the network in my office (I'm using a PowerBook G4), but
> I'm pretty sure I don't have this problem popping up everytime I go
> back to the office after having used my machine at home.
>
> Maybe there's some operation missing at shutdown. I installed
> PostgreSQL using Mark Liyanage's package. Could there be something
> missing? Is Postgres taking care of the removal of the postmaster.pid
> file or do you have to do it yourself in some shutdown script?

François

I would definitely quit postgres before shutting down. And Mac OS X does
not in my experience like working in "offline" mode. I had all sorts of
problems getting networking set up right in that mode. All my problems
disapeared when the machine was plugged in to the adsl router...

I would say that DNS could be an issue here.

Cheers

Tony Grant

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