Hi guys,
Just noticed an error in the 7.1.1 developer docs.
In the Admin Guide, in chapter 3.3 "Starting the database server" it
says :
***
On Solaris, edit the file rc2.d to contain the following single line:
su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D
/usr/local/pgsql/data"
***
This is BADLY WRONG and won't work at all.
Instead the person installing PostgreSQL needs to create a startup
script as /etc/init.d/postgresql, then create a soft link from
/etc/rc3.d/S[00..99]postgresql that script.
The script though, can use the su command given above.
i.e.
echo 'su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D
/usr/local/pgsql/data"' > /etc/init.d/postgresql
chmod 744 /etc/init.d/postgresql
chown root:sys /etc/init.d/postgresql
ln -s /etc/init.d/postgresql /etc/rc3.d/S10postgresql
I haven't tried looking at the documentation .sgml source files and
creating a patch, but if you guys want me to, I guess I could figure it
out.
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
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