On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 18:26, ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> > <ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> writes:
>
> > > I'm running Debian unstable, and I keep getting a message from a
> > > cron job that wants to do.maintenance about no password being
> > > supplied.
> Well, if I 'su - postgres' from root, and then run
> 'psql template1' everything works fine. I suppose I could edit
> the .pgpass to contain a bad password, and see if psql fails. If
> I put a bad password in .pgpass, the attempt to try psql fails.
> So, psql is using .pgpass.
I suggest you edit /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance and add a line
set -x
at line 2. Then you will be able to see exactly what command it is
trying to run.
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