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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Linux MANDRAKE startup startup script is broken ? From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 15:37:00 -0500 Oleg Bartunov wrote: > I had a request from bulgarian user of postgres. He complained > about non-working locale. His system is MANDRAKE 7.0 which comes > with postgres 6.5.3 I believe. After several messages we found > that problem was in startup script /etc/init.d/rc3.d > su -l postgres -c 'postmaster .......' > The problem was '-l', after removing it all problems were solved ! ?!?!?!? Do something for me: add a couple of lines in /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql after the postmaster start: su -l postgres -c 'set >/var/lib/pgsql/envvars-l.lst' su postgres -c 'set >/var/lib/pgsql/envvaqrs-no-l.lst' And e-mail me the two '*.lst' files out of /var/lib/pgsql. > I'm not an expert in su, at least I don't know what '-l' is supposed >From man su: SU(1) FSF SU(1) NAME su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs SYNOPSIS su [OPTION]... [-] [USER [ARG]...] DESCRIPTION Change the effective user id and group id to that of USER. -, -l, --login make the shell a login shell ...... > for, but it's worth to describe the problem and let people from > MANDRAKE to know. The same problem should manifest itself in RedHat, which is what I build the RPM's for. Mandrake has been taking the RedHat RPM's and using them, with modifications, up till now, so, if I fix this in the RedHat RPM's, the Mandrake RPM's will follow from Mandrake shortly. ===