Walt Weaver <wweaver@rightnow.com> writes:
> Could someone give me an example of how they start up the postmaster in
> logging mode?
nohup postmaster ...switches... >>/path/to/server.log 2>&1 &
where (as you knew) the switches shouldn't contain -S.
Depending on your platform, "</dev/null" might also be needed to
be completely sure the thing is disassociated from your tty and
won't get killed when the parent shell exits.
regards, tom lane