Re: ipcclean in 8.1 broken?

I wonder if there could be a potential problem with using this approach
-
checking on $USER == root.

Although it is a common practice, I think a superuser does not have to
be root.
If I'm right here, a better technique could be executing `id`.

Mike
 

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Peter
Eisentraut
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 6:49 AM
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ipcclean in 8.1 broken?

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