Re: [PATCHES] A Sparc/Linux patch (for 7.1), and a Linux rc.d/init.d script....

Ryan Kirkpatrick writes:

> postgresql -> This is a Linux distribution independent (or so I
> hope) init.d/rc.d script that makes use of pg_ctl. There is currently a
> few in ./contrib/linux of the pgsql source tree, but they are RedHat
> specific. This one is simple and self contained. Might be worth adding to
> the other scripts.

I don't see how this can be more independent if it uses

DAEMON=/home/postgres/bin/pg_ctl

and

LOG="/usr/local/pgsql/server.log"

Nor is

su - postgres sh -c "$DAEMON stop >& /dev/null"

an appropriate way to stop the server in a system shutdown situation.

IMHO, rather than accumulating a bunch of versions that somebody liked
better than the existing ones, why not provide actual scripts from actual
distributions? Generic scripts will just lead to generic problems.

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