Re: Improvement Linux startup script

I will need a diff -c, context diff, to apply this.

> Hello,
>
> The linux startup script contrib/start-scripts/linux in PostgreSQL
> 7.1.2 can be made easier to install by adding a few comment lines:
>
> diff /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.1.2/contrib/start-scripts/linux
> /etc/init.d/postgresql
> 2a3,5
> > # chkconfig: 2345 98 02
> > # description: PostgreSQL RDBMS
> >
> 15c18,19
> < # Or check out the chkconfig program, if you have it.
> ---
> > # Or, if you have chkconfig, simply:
> > # chkconfig --add postgresql
>
> Tested on Red Hat Linux 7.1 with PostgreSQL 7.1.2.
>
> Relevant part of the chkconfig man page:
>
> :RUNLEVEL FILES
> : Each service which should be manageable by chkconfig needs
> : two or more commented lines added to its init.d script.
> : The first line tells chkconfig what runlevels the service
> : should be started in by default, as well as the start and
> : stop priority levels. If the service should not, by
> : default, be started in any runlevels, a - should be used
> : in place of the runlevels list. The second line contains
> : a description for the service, and may be extended across
> : multiple lines with backslash continuation.
> :
> : For example, random.init has these three lines:
> : # chkconfig: 2345 20 80
> : # description: Saves and restores system entropy pool for \
> : # higher quality random number generation.
> : This says that the random script should be started in lev?
> : els 2, 3, 4, and 5, that its start priority should be 20,
> : and that its stop priority should be 80. You should be
> : able to figure out what the description says; the \ causes
> : the line to be continued. The extra space in front of the
> : line is ignored.
>
> Regards,
> Ren? Pijlman
>
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