text patch -- sugg cmd when run as root
Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>
From: Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>
To: pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1998-04-30T03:09:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
When you run postgresql as root, the command it gives for putting in your startup script is a little weird. The main issue is that 2>&1 only works in bash, not tcsh. >& works in both, so it seems preferable. Another minor issue is that it echoes the command and pipes it through su. Shouldn't this be "su - postgres -c 'cmd'"? Do all versions of su have the '-c' argument? piping it through seems weird, but maybe it isn't. this is a straight diff for src/backend/main/main.c --cut here-- 38c38 < echo \"postmaster -B 256 >/var/log/pglog 2>&1 &\" | su - postgres\n\n" --- > su - postgres -c 'postmaster -B 256 >& /var/log/pglog' &\n\n" --cut here--