On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> > > The postgresql-?.?.?/contrib/linux/postgres.init is meant to start your
> > > postmaster at boot time and stop it at halt/reboot. Excelent.
> > > But it is made for postgres account running tcsh. I know nothing about tchs
> > > and my postgres account defaults to bash. So (thanks to Steve "Stevers!"
> > > Coile) I changed it to bash:
>
> OK, but _I_ don't run bash. So someone else is now maintaining this
> file? Why didn't we keep both forms in the file, with one commented out?
> What are we trying to accomplish here??
Why not do what most init scripts do and use the standard /bin/sh?