Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 14:25:08 +0100 From: hw@thor.shn.com (Henning Wickhorst) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Starting postgres at bootup Message-ID: <199703031325.OAA00424@thor.shn.com>
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Hi,
I' m running postgresql V6.0 on a FreeBSD Box (V2.1.0-R).
But i found no way to start the postmaster while booting.
The postmaster daemon has to run under uid 'postgres'.
I put this line into the 'rc.local' file :
/bin/echo "/u/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D/u/pgsql/data > \
/u/pgsql/server.log 2>&1 &" | /usr/bin/su - postgres
But the postmaster dies with signal 11 at bootup.
>From /var/log/messages:
Mar 1 15:48:15 thor /kernel: pid 1110: su: uid 270: exited on signal 11
270 is the uid of user postgres.
When i put the same line into a script file and call this
script file as root everything works fine. The postmaster
is running as a daemon under uid 'postgres'.
When i call this script file from 'rc.local' while booting,
postmaster dies with signal 11.
When i try to start the script file using 'at', it fails on the
same reason like starting it from rc.local.
I also tried to call postmaster with option '-S' from 'rc.local'
but postmaster also dies.
I don't think that this is a postgres problem, while starting
other programs from rc.local using su gave the same problems.
I tried that with 'ingreslock' using 'su' to run it under
uid ingres.
How do you start daemons, who have to run under a special uid
while bootup ?
Regards,
Henning
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