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Subject: Re: Starting postmaster
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Feb 92 07:47:33 PST."
             <9202241547.AA05169@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> 
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 11:33:24 PST

you write:

> 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.

This looks ok to me, assuming that the postmaster is executable (if you
can run it manually then i suppose it is).  Any sun expert out there see 
anything wrong?

Is there a postmaster running after you finish booting?

	ps axu | grep postm


Jeff Meredith
mer@postgres.berkeley.edu