Re: Permission Problems:-)?

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:08:23PM -1000, Jerome Lyles wrote:

> > I don't think so --- the postmaster will actively refuse to start if you
> > try to run it as root. Better take another look at exactly what's
> > happening.
>
> Well two out of three isn't bad:-). I'll let you be the judge:
> Running the postmaster as root:
>
> adriel(at)linux:~> su
> Password:
> linux:/home/adriel # /etc/init.d/postgresql start
> Starting PostgreSQL
> done

If you look closely at the script, you'll see that the postmaster is not
run as root, but rather under "su - postgres". (You should be aware
that the start script is very different and separate from the postmaster
program.) So Tom gets 3/3, and you will know sooner or later that he
scores 100% most of the time.

> postgres(at)linux:~> ps auxw | grep postgres
> postgres 18973 0.0 0.2 17960 2296 pts/3 S 14:47 0:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data

See, this is not running as root.

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