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Commit 377cd2ea authored by Thomas G. Lockhart's avatar Thomas G. Lockhart
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Add comments to assist with installation.

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# based on news startup by David Myers
#
# Written for RedHat Linux but should apply to other Linux distributions.
#
# To be installed as /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgres.init
# Softlink into rc5.d to bring up with multiuser and networking:
# cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d; ln -s ../init.d/postgres.init S98postgres
#
# Assumptions:
# - the postgres user is named "postgres"
# - the postgres user is running csh/tcsh
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echo -n "Starting postgres service: "
# force full login to get path names and environment variables
# postgres runs tcsh so use proper syntax in redirection
# change this line if the postgres superuser account is not "postgres"
# change this line if another shell syntax is necessary
# su - postgres -c 'postmaster -S' > /dev/null&
su - postgres -c 'postmaster >>&! /tmp/postmaster.log&' > /dev/null&
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