In article <20754.1086790815@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>Depends which startup script you are using. I know that up till
>recently the Red Hat init script did
>
> su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "pg_ctl start ..."
>
>and because it forced /bin/sh, anything you might have put in say
>~postgres/.bash_profile wouldn't get read. You can just take out
>that -s switch though.
Actually, I think it's that bash is broken (well, it is if you ask me, but
not if you ask Chet Ramey). At least it was circa 2001 when I last looked
at this issue.
I had to ask -l to get my init scripts to work (that is, to source .profile
when started with su - ).
mrc
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