On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 05:22:07PM +0200, Raul Secan wrote: > Hello, I have succesfuly installed PostgreSQL 7.4.1, on my OS which is Red Hat Linux 9.0. > > I start the server with: > $ pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start > > And stop it with: > $ pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data stop -m fast > > There are two questions here, which I want to put to you guys: > 1. How can make PostgreSQL run as a Linux service so database server > starts at each reboot run 'ntsysv' as root, and make sure the checkbox next to "postgresql" is turned on. > 2. How can I register the PGDATA environment variable, so I don't have to > use -D /usr/local/pgsql/data parameter (and don't use -l logfile if it is > posible) when run the start command > I generally use something like: # /usr/sbin/service postgresql start to start the service, and "stop" to stop it. this *should* take care of dealing with the -D option. > Thanks, Raul Secan. hope that helps. regards, J
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