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

Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>

From: "Nic Ferrier" <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
To: olly@lfix.co.uk, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: pgman@candle.pha.pa.us, peter_e@gmx.net, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-02-06T00:58:07Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-hackers
>>> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> 06-Feb-01 12:39:24 AM >>>

> "Nic Ferrier" wrote:
>>>> - the postmaster was being started without nohup
 
Oliver wrote:
>> If postmaster is being started by init, it should not need 
>> nohup, because init never exits and postmaster is not 
>> going to get shutdown unexpectedly.

I agree... I was just putting into the script what was in the man
page about postmaster.

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.


Nic