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Re: location of the configuration files

Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>

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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>
Cc: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-02-13T16:28:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 15:03:09 +0000,
  "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Is everyone forgetting that wherever the configuration file is stored and
> whether or not it needs a command line argument to specify it the database is
> not going to start up automatically unless at least part of the installation is
> done as root anyway?

Users can use cron to start there own instance. Your cron script can check
if the server is running every (say) 15 minutes and start the server
if it isn't.