Re: contrib/start-scripts/linux on Debian

Sure. I didn't know there was a Debian start script. Because we 
frequently keep up with the latest changes in postgres (which we 
regularly use), I always build postgres from source. But that would be 
a perfectly acceptable solution.

-tfo

On Aug 27, 2004, at 12:45 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:
>> I'd love to see a comment added to the linux start-script included in
>> contrib that referenced update-rc.d. It's useful to note because
>> Debian has different runlevels from Red Hat, and update-rc.d will
>> intelligently do the same thing as chkconfig for Debian systems.
>
> Why not just include the Debian start script instead of asking to user
> to fix up the existing one?