Re: Autostart PostgreSQL in Ubuntu

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Carlos Moreno wrote:
> Johann Maar wrote:
>> But if I try to start PostgreSQL by running "sudo /etc/init.d/
>> postgresql start" it will fail because it tries to write a PID file to
>> "/var/run/postgresql" which does not exist. If I create this directory
>> and set the permissions for postgres to write it works (!), but after
>> the next restart of the machine the directory is already gone.
>
> With Red Hat systems, you would do chkconfig postgresql on if you
> installed
> the postgresql that they distribute.
>
> On Ubuntu (and I imagine with all Debian-based systems), AFAIK you have
> to manually adjust the init scripts for the runlevels that you want.
> Assuming

You can use update-rc.d.

Joshua D. Drake
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