Re: ipcclean in 8.1 broken?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Date: 2006-03-01T11:49:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 07:42 schrieb Christopher Kings-Lynne:
> I just tried using ipcclean in 8.1.3.  It doesn't work when I su to the
> pgsql user.  This part of the script:
>
> if [ "$USER" = 'root' -o "$LOGNAME" = 'root' ]
>
> Always fails because even tho $USER is set to 'pgsql' when su'ed,
> $LOGNAME is still root.
>
> This is on FreeBSD 4.9

It seems to work on Linux; apparently there are different behaviors of su.  Do 
you have a suggestion for resolving this?

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Peter Eisentraut
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