Re: pgAgent on Macbook

2009/6/5 Poonam Nijhawan <pnijhawan@greenplum.com>:
> Hi There,
>
> I am managed to install pgagent on my mac book. I could see the pgagent process running. I have attached the
screenshotsfor the same. 
>   root# ps -eaf | grep pgagent
>    0 12627     1   0   0:00.01 ttys000    0:00.01 pgagent -l 1 dbname=postgres user=postgres
>    0 12650 45330   0   0:00.00 ttys000    0:00.00 grep pgagent
>
> But when I am clicking on "run now " on job node to execute the job in the statistics window it shows running but in
thebackground it throws following error:- 
>
>
> root# The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec().
> Break on __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__() to debug.

Start pgagent with the -f option. It seems that fork without exec
doesn't play nicely in Leopard.

You need -f anyway, when starting using launchd, as launchd process
shouldn't fork/exec as launchd can think they've died and restart.


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