Hi Roger! Roger Leigh [2005-07-17 9:35 +0100]: > During postgresql startup, I see this: > > hardknott:/home/rleigh# /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.0 start > * Starting PostgreSQL 8.0 database server: main > Use of uninitialized value in -r at /usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster line 112. > The PostgreSQL autovacuum daemon failed to start. Please check the log output: > Use of uninitialized value in open at /usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster line 127. > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > /usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster line 127. > *ror: Could not open log file > [fail]
That's odd... /etc/postgresql/8.0/main/autovacuum_log should be
automatically created and point to
/var/log/postgresql/pg_autovacuum-8.0-main.log. Does any of the files
not exist on your system? Did you manually remove the file?
> Perhaps it needs to skip logging if the '-L' option isn't used? (I
> haven't found any use of '-L' in the startup scripts, but I may be
> mistaken.)
Well, it is hidden a bit:
my %avac_flags = ( ..., 'avac_logfile' => '-L', ...)
So the $info{'avac_logfile' is translated to the value of "-L".
If the symlink is not present or dangling, no log file will be used.
However, currently I don't check for the presence of the log file when
trying to output the last part of the log if startup fails.
Thanks,
Martin
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