Re: starting the postmaster

Hi John,

I am getting a FAILED notice on your construction.

if I delete the >/dev/null 2>&1 I can see:

/usr/bin/pg_ctl: /usr/bin/postmaster -i: No such file or directory

as a response...

so I tried removing the single quotes ' and I get this as a response:

starting service pg_ctl: invalid option: -i

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still struggling here,
Brian

At 10:13 PM 3/7/02 +0000, John Taylor wrote:
>On Thursday 07 March 2002 20:08, Brian wrote:
>> I just upgraded to RedHat 7.2 and I'm having a problem starting the postmaster with the -i argument for tcpip.
>>
>> The /etc/rd.d/init.d/postgresql file has a line in it like this:
>>
>>
>> su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p /usr/bin/postmaster start > /dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null
>>
>> if I insert an -i before the -D... or after it... or behind the -p or where ever it fails.
>
>Try:
>
>su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p '/usr/bin/postmaster -i' start > /dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null
>
>Regards
>JohnT