> I am using PostgreSQL 7.4.7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. > > I want to start the Postgres Postmaster automatically when the server > boots up. > I have tried putting the command > "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l > /usr/local/pgsql/data/server.log start" > In the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file but when the server boots up it gets > stuck at the point "Enabling swap space [OK]". > Usually the Red Hat desktop would come up but it doesn't. > > Any ideas? I'd be inclined to put a startup script in /etc/init.d, which accepts start and stop arguments, and then put the appropriate links into, oh, probably /etc/rc3.d to point to the /etc/init.d script. /etc/rc3.d/S99postgresql would point to /etc/init.d/postgresql; as would also /etc/rc3.d/K99postgresql. That's how you're supposed to add services... -- output = reverse("moc.liamg" "@" "enworbbc") http://linuxdatabases.info/info/x.html Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982