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Re: [HACKERS] Re: syslog logging setup broken?

Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>

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From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
To: nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk
Cc: olly@lfix.co.uk, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, pgman@candle.pha.pa.us, peter_e@gmx.net, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-02-07T01:12:52Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers 
> The man page suggests that nohup is required to init postmaster, I
> know this isn't true but to implement an example init file and not
> match up with the man page seemed foolish.
> 
> I guess nohup would stop postmaster doing something awfull if it
> doesn't handle HUP properly but I very much doubt that you guys fail
> to handle HUP.

Good point. postmaster in 7.1 uses HUP signal to re-read
postgresql.conf. It seems we should not use nohup to start postmaster.
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Tatsuo Ishii