Re: Need some help setting up pgAgent

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com> wrote:
> Okay I found one that I can use..
>
> One question..  Should the connection string in the script have the
> password for "root" hard coded in it?  Or will it use a password from
> ~/.pgpass automatically?  If so, what user account will it find the
> .pgpass file under?  Thanks!

Have the script start pgagent under the postgres account eg;

su - postgres -c 'p/path/to/pgadmin....'

Then it should be able to use postgres' pgpass file. Don't put the
password in the connection string!

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