> On lots of systems, giving group permissions is nearly as bad as giving > world permissions (eg, all the users might be in a "users" group). > So we don't do it by default. If you want to poke holes in the security > of your own installation, go right ahead. I decided to see if I could do it without messing with permissions. I modified the script to send the data to the monitoring system itself and ran it from cron as the user postgres. Now I am not getting the number I expected when I run the script. When I run the script from the shell as user postgres I get the lag. When I run the exact same script from cron the number I get is a negative number under 3000. The same thing happens if I run the cron job as root. I suspect this is due to some environment issues. Has anybody ran into an issue like this before? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general