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From: deltam!dm!rich@uunet.UU.NET (rich mayfield)
Subject: Starting postmaster
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I'm having a problem starting postmaster via my rc.local (SunOS 4.1.1
on an IPX).  I have something like this in rc.local:

POSTGRESHOME=/export/home/postgres ; export POSTGRESHOME

if [ -f $POSTGRESHOME/bin/postmaster ]; then
	$POSTGRESHOME/bin/postmaster & echo 'postmaster'
fi

When booting, "postmaster" gets echo'd so I know the executable is
being found and, presumably, executed.  However when I go to run
the monitor, I get a "Failed to connect to backend ..." message.
I then have to manually start up the postmaster.

Is there something subtle that I'm missing here?  Thanks for
your help

rich
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