Re: Error in documentation

Hi Bruce,

Yep, that should work fine.  :-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> OK, I have applied the following patch to clean up the Solaris problems
> you reported.
>
> > 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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> > who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
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>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Index: doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.63
> diff -c -r1.63 runtime.sgml
> *** doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml   2001/05/04 23:11:37     1.63
> --- doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml   2001/05/07 15:53:22
> ***************
> *** 254,264 ****
>
>       <listitem>
>        <para>
> !       On <productname>Solaris</productname>, edit the file
> !       <filename>rc2.d</filename> to contain the following single line:
>   <programlisting>
>   su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D /usr/local/pgsql/data"
>   </programlisting>
>        </para>
>       </listitem>
>      </itemizedlist>
> --- 254,267 ----
>
>       <listitem>
>        <para>
> !       On <productname>Solaris</productname>, create a file called
> !       <filename>/etc/init.d/postgresql</filename> to contain the following
> !       single line:
>   <programlisting>
>   su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D /usr/local/pgsql/data"
>   </programlisting>
> +       Then, create a symlink to it in <filename>/etc/rc3.d</> as
> +       <literal>S99postgresql</>.
>        </para>
>       </listitem>
>      </itemizedlist>
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