Re: contrib/start-scripts/linux on Debian - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Ryan Kirkpatrick
Subject Re: contrib/start-scripts/linux on Debian
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0409050659570.31504-100000@magellan.rkirkpat.net
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In response to Re: contrib/start-scripts/linux on Debian  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: contrib/start-scripts/linux on Debian  (Thomas F.O'Connell <tfo@sitening.com>)
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:
> > I'd love to see a comment added to the linux start-script included in
> > contrib that referenced update-rc.d. It's useful to note because
> > Debian has different runlevels from Red Hat, and update-rc.d will
> > intelligently do the same thing as chkconfig for Debian systems.
> 
> Why not just include the Debian start script instead of asking to user 
> to fix up the existing one?

I agree. I wrote that start-script a long time ago when there was not a
very good one at all for Linux. Since then, the package maintainers for
the various distributions have filled that void, making my script
obsolete. TTYL.

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