On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:26:54AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Greetings. > > Running a locally-compiled postgresql 7.0.3, I'm still trying to get it > to start up automatically at boot time. The trick is, of course, to get > it to start as user postgres instead of root. > > I've got it mostly working, using start-stop-daemon; the command is: > > start-stop-daemon --start <path> --exec <path> --chuid postgres
My /etc/init.d/posgresql uses start-stop-daemon to launch /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-startup which handles a lot of the details of running postgresql. Does your locally-compiled version come with that script?
