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1. Postmaster loses bash shell command prompt?

   Dennis B <dcswest@about.com> — 2001-06-19T17:28:20Z

   Greetings;
   
   Trying to follow the directions in the PostGreSQL book, but for 
   starting postmaster in FreeBSD.  When running postmaster though, it 
   says something about now being in production mode, but also loses 
   (???) the bash shell command prompt to run anything else, including 
   psql or X & pgaccess!  Hope it's simple enough for someone to 
   explain!!!
   
   Thank you and have a great day,
   
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2. Re: Postmaster loses bash shell command prompt?

   Bryan White <bryan@arcamax.com> — 2001-06-19T18:23:33Z

   > Trying to follow the directions in the PostGreSQL book, but for
   > starting postmaster in FreeBSD. When running postmaster though, it
   > says something about now being in production mode, but also loses
   > (???) the bash shell command prompt to run anything else, including
   > psql or X & pgaccess! Hope it's simple enough for someone to
   > explain!!!
   
   The postmaster does not disconnect from the console it is run from.  By
   default its standard output is used for logging.  To force it into the
   background you need to run it in the 'background'.  In bash this means
   putting an & at the end of the command line.
   
   Here is the line from my system startup scripts that I use to start it:
   su - postgres -c "postmaster -i -B 1024 -N 256 -o -S2048 >>/var/log/postgres
   2>&1 &" > /dev/null 2>&1 &