Thanks! 2>&1 was already used in same script. pgwrap is an OpenBSD thing
that sets pg environment for root user (I know a *little* bit about my
system).
Frank
At 12:49 PM 10/17/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Thanks. When I remove -S then the command never completes?
>
>Oh, OK. It wasn't clear what context you were starting the postmaster
>in. Evidently it's from a script that has other things to do. You
>need to put an ampersand "&" at the end of the command line to fork off
>a separate process for the postmaster. I had mistakenly assumed your
>"pgwrap" thingy was doing something like that.
>
>> How do I redirect stderr?
>
>Depends what shell you're using, but on sh-derived shells adding
> 2>&1
>after the >>file phrase will put stderr into the same file as stdout.
>
> regards, tom lane
