Unfortunately, no, it doesn't. It comes with pg_ctl, which is as far as I
can tell just a wrapper around postmaster. Since sending the message,
I've solved the problem thusly, and it seems to work:
(contents of /etc/init.d/postgresql :)
#! /bin/sh
#
# To stop postgresql running, do
# ln -sf /bin/false /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/can_i_run
# To re-enable it, do
# rm /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/can_i_run
case "$1" in
start)
echo Starting PostgreSQL postmaster
start-stop-daemon --chuid postgres --exec
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster --start /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster --
-D/var/lib/postgres/data -i -S
;;
stop)
echo Stopping PostgreSQL postmaster
start-stop-daemon --exec /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster --stop
;;
restart)
echo Restarting PostgreSQL postmaster
start-stop-daemon --exec /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster --stop
start-stop-daemon --chuid postgres --exec
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster --start /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster --
-D/var/lib/postgres/data -i -S
;;
force-reload)
echo Reload not supported by PostgreSQL - restarting postmaster
start-stop-daemon --exec /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster --stop
start-stop-daemon --chuid postgres --exec
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster --start /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster --
-D/var/lib/postgres/data -i -S
;;
reload)
echo PostgreSQL does not support a reload option
exit 2
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/postgresql {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
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Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Aaron Brashears wrote:
> Does the source distribution come with the file bin/postresql-startup
> in the PGHOME directory? In the debian distribution, this script is
> called by /etc/init.d/postgresql and handles startup based on the
> configuration file.
>
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 08:52:02PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > Could some kind soul help out with this? I built postgres from source
> > instead of using the .deb, and all works fine except for having it start
> > on bootup. I'm stuck on trying to get the startup script to run as user
> > 'postgres' instead of as root. I tried to have it issue the command:
> >
> > su postgres '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -w -D/var/lib/postgres/data -o
> > "-i" start'
> >
>
