Re: [HACKERS] postmaster crash and .s.pgsql file

Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk>

From: Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-01-29T14:29:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Andrew Martin wrote:
> 
> > >    > I would opt for /var/run to store the pid files and have the name set to
> > > 
> > > 	   That would assume that postmaster runs as root, which is not
> > >    allowed...has to be in /tmp somewhere
> > > 
> > > Maybe both should be under /usr/local/pgsql
> > I assume you mean the root of the installation rather than specifically
> > /usr/local/pgsql.
> > 
> > > somewhere, so they will not be removed by any 
> > > '/tmp'-clean-up-scripts.
> > > 
> > In $PGDATA would seem as good as anywhere (maybe $PGDATA/.run or some such)
> > 
> > /usr/local is mounted r/o on my system - $PGDATA lives elsewhere and is
> > writable.
> 
> 	$PGDATA is created 700...general users need to be able to read the
> directory in order to connect to the socket, so we'd have to lax up
> security in order to accomplish this...
> 
OK, no problem, a subdirectory of $PGDATA which has world read permission

Andrew

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