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