Re: [BUGS] postmaster will not start with stale lockfile but not report why

2002-10-07 Thread Lee Kindness
A pet annoyance with the Linux RPMs... They are shipped with syslog enabled and postmaster sdtout/stderr redirected to /dev/null. So unless the user specifically sets up the needed info in /etc/syslog.conf then they never hear a squeak from PostgreSQL! I'm by no means an RPM expert, but judging b

Re: [BUGS] postmaster will not start with stale lockfile but not report why

2002-10-07 Thread Tom Lane
Rudolf Potucek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oct 4 14:05:45 antimony3 postgresql: Starting postgresql service: > failed > Maybe, just maybe, it would be nice if the server croaked a bit more > vebously? The postmaster croaks as verbosely as it can. I'll bet lunch that your system's startup scr