Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, boguszew@shera produced:
That is correct. There is a toggle start postgres=yes in the rc.config file. But, because I wanted Postgres vers. 6.3.2 and not the earlier version included on the SuSE distribution disks, I did not do the SuSE standard Postgres install. So I am not sure where the switch is caught. I plan to start the postmaster from the /etc/inittab file, but am wondering if that is
Don't. You want to start it (as almost every other program that starts at runtime) from /sbin/init.d/postgres, which is a script that you want to make. There is a skeleton (/sbin/init.d/skeleton) script that you can copy and change. (In these scripts rc.config is sourced and evaluated, see e.g. /sbin/init.d/at) Then you make links from rc2.d and rc3.d, naming them Sxxpostgres and Kxxpostgres to /sbin/init.d/postgres. xx denotes the sequence in which they are (S)tarted and (K)illed as you change into and out of the runlevel. (If that's unclear: cd /sbin/init.d/rc3.d ls ls -l and all shall be revealed, hopefully) You won't want postgres in single-user mode, so you don't put it in rc1.d.
the SuSE standard. Sorry if this is an obvious question--I'm thinking that it probably makes little difference between inittab or boot.local for starting the postmaster
of both, boot.local is much better: YaST / SuSEconfig won't change it, with a hosed inittab you won't be able to boot any more, postgres probably needs other services that are only aviable after changing into the runlevel (hence the numbers xx) (Actually I think boot.local runs before the runlevel is changed, too.) -Wolfgang -- PGP 2 welcome: Mail me, subject "send PGP-key". If you've nothing at all to hide, you must be boring. Unsolicited Bulk E-Mails: *You* pay for ads you never wanted. Is our economy _so_ weak we have to tolerate SPAMMERS? I guess not. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e