Removing the `"' following postmaster should fix it..
Chairudin Sentosa Harjo writes:
> Dear all,
>
> My system is SuSE 6.2, postgresql 6.5.2 and pentium III 500.
>
> I have a problem with postmaster respawning too fast.
>
> I followed the installation guide of postgresql 6.5.2 in file INSTALL.
> On section 21, "Run postmaster in the background from your ...",
> I followed the last method.
>
>
> * In RedHat Linux edit file /etc/inittab to add the floowing as a single
> line:
> pg:2345:respawn:/bin/su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster"
> -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >> /usr/local/pgsql/server.log 2>&1 <
> /dev/null"
>
>
>
> I see a lot of this messages on my /var/log/messages:
>
> Oct 9 00:01:16 prosolv init: Id "pg" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
> minutes
> Oct 9 00:06:18 prosolv init: Id "pg" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
> minutes
> Oct 9 00:11:20 prosolv init: Id "pg" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
> minutes
> Oct 9 00:16:22 prosolv init: Id "pg" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
> minutes
>
> I have about 1271 messages like this until today, 13 Oct 1999.
> It seems to happen every 5 minutes.
> What is happening?
> Could someone tell me what have I done wrong?
>
> Regards,
> Chairudin Sentosa
>
> ************
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