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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Error in documentation
In-Reply-To: <3AEFF0DB.6E5A5FC4@iprimus.com.au> "from Justin Clift at May 2,
	2001 09:34:51 pm"
To: Justin Clift <jclift@iprimus.com.au>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 11:55:36 -0400 (EDT)
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OK, I have applied the following patch to clean up the Solaris problems
you reported.


> Hi guys,
> 
> Just noticed an error in the 7.1.1 developer docs.
> 
> In the Admin Guide, in chapter 3.3 "Starting the database server" it
> says :
> 
> ***
> 
> On Solaris, edit the file rc2.d to contain the following single line: 
> 
> su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D
> /usr/local/pgsql/data"
> 
> ***
> 
> This is BADLY WRONG and won't work at all.
> 
> Instead the person installing PostgreSQL needs to create a startup
> script as /etc/init.d/postgresql, then create a soft link from
> /etc/rc3.d/S[00..99]postgresql that script.
> 
> The script though, can use the su command given above.
> 
> i.e.
> 
> echo 'su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D
> /usr/local/pgsql/data"' > /etc/init.d/postgresql
> chmod 744 /etc/init.d/postgresql
> chown root:sys /etc/init.d/postgresql
> ln -s /etc/init.d/postgresql /etc/rc3.d/S10postgresql
> 
> I haven't tried looking at the documentation .sgml source files and
> creating a patch, but if you guys want me to, I guess I could figure it
> out.
> 
> Regards and best wishes,
> 
> Justin Clift
> 
> -- 
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> first group; there was less competition there."
>      - Indira Gandhi
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Index: doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
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RCS file: /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.63
diff -c -r1.63 runtime.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml	2001/05/04 23:11:37	1.63
--- doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml	2001/05/07 15:53:22
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*** 254,264 ****
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
!       On <productname>Solaris</productname>, edit the file
!       <filename>rc2.d</filename> to contain the following single line:
  <programlisting>
  su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D /usr/local/pgsql/data"
  </programlisting>
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
--- 254,267 ----
  
      <listitem>
       <para>
!       On <productname>Solaris</productname>, create a file called
!       <filename>/etc/init.d/postgresql</filename> to contain the following 
!       single line:
  <programlisting>
  su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D /usr/local/pgsql/data"
  </programlisting>
+       Then, create a symlink to it in <filename>/etc/rc3.d</> as
+       <literal>S99postgresql</>.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>

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