Обсуждение: Re: starting the postmaster
Hi John, I am getting a FAILED notice on your construction. if I delete the >/dev/null 2>&1 I can see: /usr/bin/pg_ctl: /usr/bin/postmaster -i: No such file or directory as a response... so I tried removing the single quotes ' and I get this as a response: starting service pg_ctl: invalid option: -i ------- still struggling here, Brian At 10:13 PM 3/7/02 +0000, John Taylor wrote: >On Thursday 07 March 2002 20:08, Brian wrote: >> I just upgraded to RedHat 7.2 and I'm having a problem starting the postmaster with the -i argument for tcpip. >> >> The /etc/rd.d/init.d/postgresql file has a line in it like this: >> >> >> su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p /usr/bin/postmaster start > /dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null >> >> if I insert an -i before the -D... or after it... or behind the -p or where ever it fails. > >Try: > >su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p '/usr/bin/postmaster -i' start > /dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null > >Regards >JohnT
On Friday 08 March 2002 01:15, Brian wrote: > Hi John, > > I am getting a FAILED notice on your construction. > > if I delete the >/dev/null 2>&1 I can see: > > /usr/bin/pg_ctl: /usr/bin/postmaster -i: No such file or directory > > as a response... > Hmmm... That works for me with postgres 7.1, but having looked at the pg_ctl manual page, it probably isn't the best way to do it. You probably need to use the -o option to pg_ctl ... su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p /usr/bin/postmaster -o '-i' start > /dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null Regards JohnT ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
Bingo.... perfect... that works well. Thank you for helping. At 08:38 AM 3/8/02 +0000, you wrote: >On Friday 08 March 2002 01:15, Brian wrote: >> Hi John, >> >> I am getting a FAILED notice on your construction. >> >> if I delete the >/dev/null 2>&1 I can see: >> >> /usr/bin/pg_ctl: /usr/bin/postmaster -i: No such file or directory >> >> as a response... >> > >Hmmm... >That works for me with postgres 7.1, but having looked at the pg_ctl manual page, it probably isn't the >best way to do it. > >You probably need to use the -o option to pg_ctl ... >su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p /usr/bin/postmaster -o '-i' start > /dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null > >Regards >JohnT > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
On Friday 08 March 2002 01:15, Brian wrote: > Hi John, > > I am getting a FAILED notice on your construction. > > if I delete the >/dev/null 2>&1 I can see: > > /usr/bin/pg_ctl: /usr/bin/postmaster -i: No such file or directory > > as a response... > Hmmm... That works for me with postgres 7.1, but having looked at the pg_ctl manual page, it probably isn't the best way to do it. You probably need to use the -o option to pg_ctl ... su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p /usr/bin/postmaster -o '-i' start > /dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null Regards JohnT ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster