Re: [HACKERS] Linux MANDRAKE startup startup script is broken ?

Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had a request from bulgarian user of postgres. He complained
> about non-working locale. His system is MANDRAKE 7.0 which comes
> with postgres 6.5.3 I believe. After several messages we found
> that problem was in startup script /etc/init.d/rc3.d
>    su -l postgres -c 'postmaster .......'
>  The problem was '-l', after removing it all problems were solved !

?!?!?!?  Do something for me: add a couple of lines in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql after the postmaster start:
su -l postgres -c 'set >/var/lib/pgsql/envvars-l.lst'
su postgres -c 'set >/var/lib/pgsql/envvaqrs-no-l.lst'

And e-mail me the two '*.lst' files out of /var/lib/pgsql.

> I'm not an expert in su, at least I don't know what '-l' is supposed

>From man su:
SU(1)                          FSF                          SU(1)

NAME      su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs

SYNOPSIS      su [OPTION]... [-] [USER [ARG]...]

DESCRIPTION      Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER.
      -, -l, --login             make the shell a login shell
......

> for, but it's worth to describe the problem and let people from
> MANDRAKE to know.

The same problem should manifest itself in RedHat, which is what I build
the RPM's for.  Mandrake has been taking the RedHat RPM's and using
them, with modifications, up till now, so, if I fix this in the RedHat
RPM's, the Mandrake RPM's will follow from Mandrake shortly.

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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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