On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Mike Christensen <mike@kitchenpc.com> wrote:
> Okay my required n00b question of the week, hopefully this'll be an easy one..
>
> I decided to give pgAgent a shot, because there's this stored sproc
> (sorry, function) I need to run nightly and I think spending hours
> figuring out pgAgent would somehow be better than the 3 minutes it
> would take to add a cron job that calls psql..
>
> I'm following the directions at:
> http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.6/pgagent-install.html
Why such an old version? Try
http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.12/pgagent-install.html
> However, the heading "Daemon installation on *nix" needs me to believe
> that running pgagent from the command line should install the daemon,
> and then things should be happily running in the background. However,
> when I run the command line as instructed, it just sits there and does
> nothing. I never get returned to the bash prompt, it's as if the
> daemon is just running in interactive mode until I stop the process..
Did you use the -f option?
> Maybe I'm missing something, or I have to add that command line to
> some config file. I'm not a unix guru but from my past experiences, I
> can usually run daemons with "/etc/init.d/blah start" - pgAgent
> doesn't seem to be installed in that manner.
If you built from source, it's up to you to create the startup script.
The pgAgent source tree doesn't contain OS-specific startup scripts.
> Second, assuming the daemon is running in interactive mode, like..
> now what? The docs have no next steps. How do I create a new job to
> run my SQL function every night? From some documentation from
> Postgres Plus, I was led to believe that there should be a "Jobs" tree
> in pgAdmin created.. But I see nothing. Thanks!
Did you setup the database per the part of the docs prior to that section?
The "next steps" are most certainly there - see the index page at
http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.12/pgagent.html
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