Re: Incorrect password using pg_ctl

Doug McNaught wrote:
>
> Matthew Stanfield <matthew@propertyknowledge.com> writes:
>
> > What I really want is to be able to start/stop/status the server from my
> > normal account the way I always used to by using aliases for the long
> > command lines of "su -c 'pg_ctl start/stop...' postgres".
>
> Write a little C program that exec's pg_ctl with the appropriate
> arguments, make it setuid 'postgres'?

Thanks Doug.

I could do this but I am intrigued as to why I can't do things the way I
have described (as above), since that was the setup that worked when I had
the same versions of linux and postgresql installed before I had to do a
clean re-install a few days ago.

Regards,

..matthew