Am Mon, 2003-06-02 um 03.44 schrieb Herbie McDuck:
> Hmmm ... I'm using SuSE 8.2 with PostgreSQL 7.3 and cannot find
> pg_ctl. From some doc reading pg_ctl starts the postmaster function
> and other goodies.
>
> in SuSE 8.2, in the /etc/init.d/ directory the is a file called
> postgres that is used to start/stop/restart...etc the server.
>
> Is this the same thing as pg_ctl?
No. The one in /etc/init.d/ is a so called init script.
It is run when runlevel change (6 = reboot, 1 = single user, etc).
You could look for your pg_ctl in:
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/
That's where debian puts it.
HTH
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