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

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Michael Lankton wrote:

I am being deluged, and I mean deluged, with posts from Friday-Tuesday that I have already recieved. Is there a problem with the server? Anyone else getting this?

-- ==================================================================== Michael Lankton <A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org"><A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org</A">http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org</A</A>> ==================================================================== No it's not just you. I just mailed a post about it. These mails are OLD. Like for a five days old. And all those damn pager bounces are being bounced with the rest of the old stuff. I posted cause I wanted to make sure it wasn't something on my end somehow. P.S. it's not _JUST_ SuSE, and seems to be happening on the AS list as well... what the #$%@ is going on?

-M One is most dishonest towards one's God; he is not _permitted_ to sin. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

Hi! Trying to kill the keyboard, hekate@intergate.bc.ca produced:

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I am being deluged, and I mean deluged, with posts from Friday-Tuesday

No it's not just you. I just mailed a post about it. These mails are OLD. [...] sure it wasn't something on my end somehow. P.S. it's not _JUST_ SuSE, and seems to be happening on the AS list as well... what the #$%@ is going on?

Looks like they (at least some I checked) come out of a fido (mailbox-network) gateway called agnese.fidoitalia.ne. Just another mail loop ... -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

I have just deleted 138 that have come in the last 2 hours. PLEASE PLEASE someone fix this, as my ISP (my university) is about to freak out, and I need this account to keep track of assignments, etc. Thank You -- Robb Romans Southwest Texas State University www.swt.edu/~rr44607 E Pluribus Linux - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

On 08-Jul-98 Michael Lankton wrote:

I am being deluged, and I mean deluged, with posts from Friday-Tuesday that I have already recieved. Is there a problem with the server? Anyone else getting this?

What seems to be happening is that a site in Italy (sistemia.it) has been accumulating these via a news server and is now sending them back to the list. Nothing to do with the SuSE list, yet again. The same is also happening for a Debian list (via the same site) of which I am also receiving "repeat posts". The only questions are (a) whether it is accidental or malicious; (b) whether we are now in a mail-loop (God help us). Anyway, the following are a selection of typical headers (from a post originally of 3 July, received tonight). Maybe this will help you to set up filters. ------------------------------------------- Received: from sistemia.it (ns.sistemia.it [195.120.19.2]) by Galois.suse.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA25759 for <suse-linux-e@suse.de>; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 20:30:38 +0200 Received: from agnese.fidoitalia.net (news@agnese.viesse.it [195.120.19.166]) by sistemia.it (8.8.5/SCA-6.6) with ESMTP id SAA28963 for <suse-linux-e@suse.de>; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:29:41 GMT Received: (from news@localhost) by agnese.fidoitalia.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA03771 for suse-linux-e@suse.de; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 20:30:07 +0200 X-Comment-To: suse-linux-e@suse.com X-FTN-Sender: "suse-linux-e@suse.com" <suse-linux-euse.com@p1.f533.n335.z2.fidonet.org> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 98 15:06:56 +0200 Message-ID: <<A HREF="msg00633.html">199807031406.JAA22821@manuel.printsters.com</A>> References: <<A HREF="msg00611.html">359CE2AD.F398FDB8@students.wisc.edu</A>> Organization: Speed Of Life Gateway X-Gateway: FIDO .. agnese.fidoitalia.net [ifmail 2.13-tx8.7] X-FTN-REPLYADDR: suse-linux-e@suse.com X-FTN-REPLYTO: 2:335/533.1 UUCP Reply-To: suse-linux-e@suse.com X-Mailinglist: suse-linux-e Sender: owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com From: jonno@printsters.com To: suse-linux-e@suse.de Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Logo ------------------------------------------- Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 09-Jul-98 Time: 01:54:23 -------------------------------------------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e