Re: [HACKERS] Re: syslog logging setup broken?

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: nferrier(at)tapsellferrier(dot)co(dot)uk
Cc: olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: syslog logging setup broken?
Date: 2001-02-07 01:12:52
Message-ID: 20010207101252Y.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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> The man page suggests that nohup is required to init postmaster, I
> know this isn't true but to implement an example init file and not
> match up with the man page seemed foolish.
>
> I guess nohup would stop postmaster doing something awfull if it
> doesn't handle HUP properly but I very much doubt that you guys fail
> to handle HUP.

Good point. postmaster in 7.1 uses HUP signal to re-read
postgresql.conf. It seems we should not use nohup to start postmaster.
--
Tatsuo Ishii

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