Frank,
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 06:11:06PM -0400, Frank Seesink wrote:
> More info:
>
> * Reset everything to the way things 'normally' would be (user
> 'postgres' only a member of 'Users', ipc-daemon configured to run as
> Local System account, etc.).
> [snip]
> * Switched out and logged in as 'postgres', brought up BASH, and tried
> 'ipctest s', and failed as usual.
> * Did a 'ps' and saw only the shell and the ps command...no ipc-daemon.
Did you do a "ps" or a "ps -ef"? With the former, ipc-daemon should not
be displayed since it was running under a different user.
> * For fun, tried 'ipc-daemon &', and it fired up!
YA truly amazing occurrence. The above should have failed as follows:
$ ipc-daemon
(ipc-daemon) IPC-daemon is already started !!
> [snip]
>
> It's as if the copy of ipc-daemon running in the 'postgres' context is
> oblivious to the copy running as Local System account.
Yes. I believe understanding the above will lead to the root cause of
this problem.
Jason
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