| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, cbalciza(at)mail(dot)geocities(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] postgres init script things solved |
| Date: | 1998-04-27 14:55:41 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.NEB.3.95.980427105521.22570M-100000@hub.org |
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> > > The postgresql-?.?.?/contrib/linux/postgres.init is meant to start your
> > > postmaster at boot time and stop it at halt/reboot. Excelent.
> > > But it is made for postgres account running tcsh. I know nothing about tchs
> > > and my postgres account defaults to bash. So (thanks to Steve "Stevers!"
> > > Coile) I changed it to bash:
>
> OK, but _I_ don't run bash. So someone else is now maintaining this
> file? Why didn't we keep both forms in the file, with one commented out?
> What are we trying to accomplish here??
Why not do what most init scripts do and use the standard /bin/sh?
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