Re: Autologin problem

I assume you're trying to get PostGresql to load automatically.  In RH,
get rid of the stuff you wrote below and put in the following line (in
rc.local):

/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start

This is the proper way to start the DB.-- Read the file to see what it
does.  You can also stop and restart it in similar fasion.


On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Julio Cuz, Jr. wrote:

> Hi--
>
> I'm trying to run the following command on the "/etc/rc.local" so it will
> run everytime (RedHat 7/PHP4/PostgreSQL):
>
> nohup su -c 'postmaster -i -D /usr/local/pgsql/data \
> </dev/null >>server.log 2>>1 &' <username>
>
> The problem is that <username> has a password set, and since Linux doesn't
> ask for it when it's on the rc.local file, my command fails.
>
> Is there a way to include the password with the "su" command?
>
> Is there a way to CLEAR a user's password and set it to NULL?
>
> Julio Cuz, Jr.
> Riverside Community College
> jcuz@rccd.cc.ca.us
>