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From: Dan Ehrlich <ehrlich@cs.psu.edu>
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Date: 	Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:05:23 -0400
From: Dan Ehrlich <ehrlich@cs.psu.edu>
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>We're trying to put something in the boot file to run postmaster
>whenever our machine boots (in the etc/rc.local file), but
>it doesn't work.  It looks like the statement gets executed
>but it doesn't hang around, and there are no diagnostics.  
>
>Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?  Must there
>be some things "up and running" that we don't have when we
>try to run postmaster?
>
>Thanks.
>	Gintas    mephdgh@prism.gatech.edu

Here is what I use.  Work just great.

	echo -n ' postgres'
	su - postgres -c /usr/postgres/bin/postmaster &

-- Dan Ehrlich