Check the script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql it doesn't accept
parameters in the command linea except start, stop, status. Change the
line that runs postmaster adding -i option.
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Jesus Aneiros Sosa
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On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bill Barnes <bbarnes@operamail.com> writes:
> > kgb10:/home/billb# /etc/init.d/postgreql start -i
> > Starting PostgreSQL postmaster
> > kgb10:/home/billb# ps ax | grep postmaster
> > 24746 pts/5 S 0:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster -b
> > /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres -B 128 -D
> > /var/lib/postgres/data -d 0
>
> > What could account for the missing -i switch in the running postmaster?
>
> Are you sure your /etc/init.d/postgreql is designed to pass its own
> commandline switches on to the invoked postmaster? Usually startup
> scripts don't do that, since they are not designed to be run by hand
> but from /etc/rc. My bet is that there is a config file somewhere that
> the init.d script is reading (which is where the other switches given
> to the postmaster are coming from). You need to put -i in that file.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
