On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > sendmail does it now, and, apparently relatively portable across OSs ...
>
> sendmail expects to be root. It's unlikely (and very undesirable) that
> postgres will be installed with adequate privileges to read /dev/kmem,
> which is what it'd take to run the sendmail loadaverage code on most
> platforms...
Actually, not totally accurate ... sendmail has a 'RunAs' option for those
that don't wish to have it run as root, and still works for the loadavg
stuff, to the best of my knowledge (its an option I haven't played with
yet) ...