> On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Andrew Martin wrote:
>
> > > > I would opt for /var/run to store the pid files and have the name set to
> > >
> > > That would assume that postmaster runs as root, which is not
> > > allowed...has to be in /tmp somewhere
> > >
> > > Maybe both should be under /usr/local/pgsql
> > I assume you mean the root of the installation rather than specifically
> > /usr/local/pgsql.
> >
> > > somewhere, so they will not be removed by any
> > > '/tmp'-clean-up-scripts.
> > >
> > In $PGDATA would seem as good as anywhere (maybe $PGDATA/.run or some such)
> >
> > /usr/local is mounted r/o on my system - $PGDATA lives elsewhere and is
> > writable.
>
> $PGDATA is created 700...general users need to be able to read the
> directory in order to connect to the socket, so we'd have to lax up
> security in order to accomplish this...
>
OK, no problem, a subdirectory of $PGDATA which has world read permission
Andrew
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