From: Tom Lane Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:53:07 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Fix examples of how to use "su" while starting the server. X-Git-Tag: REL8_4_15~40 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5ced7dc16d8baf37cc0d9ee3cb8f2df5dca64ed5;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git Fix examples of how to use "su" while starting the server. The syntax "su -c 'command' username" is not accepted by all versions of su, for example not OpenBSD's. More portable is "su username -c 'command'". So change runtime.sgml to recommend that syntax. Also, add a -D switch to the OpenBSD example script, for consistency with other examples. Per Denis Lapshin and Gábor Hidvégi. --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml index 66f7aea747d..42287968024 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml @@ -266,10 +266,10 @@ pg_ctl start -l logfile rc.d directories. Whatever you do, the server must be run by the PostgreSQL user account and not by root or any other user. Therefore you - probably should form your commands using su -c '...' - postgres. For example: + probably should form your commands using + su postgres -c '...'. For example: -su -c 'pg_ctl start -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l serverlog' postgres +su postgres -c 'pg_ctl start -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l serverlog' @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ su -c 'pg_ctl start -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l serverlog' postgres OpenBSDstart script if [ -x /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -a -x /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres ]; then - su - -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l /var/postgresql/log -s' postgres + su -l postgres -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -s -l /var/postgresql/log -D /usr/local/pgsql/data' echo -n ' postgresql' fi