Am Dienstag 06 April 2010 20:38:46 schrieb Tom Lane: > Usually, just installing a package is not enough to make it autostart > at boot sorry for the first reply. On debian and ubuntu update-rcd is usually run when installing new packages. 8.4.2-0ubuntu9.10 installes fine here and creates all the links in /etc/rc* Please check if they exist: ls /etc/rc*/*postgres* Regards, Jens Wilke -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin