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Re: location of the configuration files

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>, Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Kevin Brown <kevin@sysexperts.com>, Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>, Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>, Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
Date: 2003-02-13T22:55:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Treat wrote:
> IIRC the postmaster.pid file should be in /var/run according to FHS, I'm
> not sure about postmaster.opts though...
> 
> Again, if we're going to make a change, let's make sure we think it
> through.

Can non-root write to /var/run?

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