Bingo.... perfect... that works well.
Thank you for helping.
At 08:38 AM 3/8/02 +0000, you wrote:
>On Friday 08 March 2002 01:15, Brian wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I am getting a FAILED notice on your construction.
>>
>> if I delete the >/dev/null 2>&1 I can see:
>>
>> /usr/bin/pg_ctl: /usr/bin/postmaster -i: No such file or directory
>>
>> as a response...
>>
>
>Hmmm...
>That works for me with postgres 7.1, but having looked at the pg_ctl manual page, it probably isn't the
>best way to do it.
>
>You probably need to use the -o option to pg_ctl ...
>su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p /usr/bin/postmaster -o '-i' start > /dev/null 2>&1" <
/dev/null
>
>Regards
>JohnT
>
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