Re: [HACKERS] postmaster crash and .s.pgsql file

On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, James Hughes wrote:

>
> I would opt for /var/run to store the pid files and have the name set to

    That would assume that postmaster runs as root, which is not
allowed...has to be in /tmp somewhere

> pgsql.$PORT. A ".pgsql" subdirectory in /tmp would be nice to store all
> the sockets. You mentioned syslog capability in a previous message
> and maybe an rc file is needed too...
>
> I'm with Goran though, we should save these for one of the next
> (6.3.[1-3]) releases.

    Makes sense

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org