Re: OpenBSD startup - logfile?

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 <fbax@execulink.com> 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