Improvement Linux startup script

I will need a diff -c, context diff, to apply this.

Hello,

The linux startup script contrib/start-scripts/linux in PostgreSQL
7.1.2 can be made easier to install by adding a few comment lines:

diff /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.1.2/contrib/start-scripts/linux
/etc/init.d/postgresql
2a3,5

# chkconfig: 2345 98 02
# description: PostgreSQL RDBMS

15c18,19
< # Or check out the chkconfig program, if you have it.
---

# Or, if you have chkconfig, simply:
# chkconfig --add postgresql

Tested on Red Hat Linux 7.1 with PostgreSQL 7.1.2.

Relevant part of the chkconfig man page:

:RUNLEVEL FILES
: Each service which should be manageable by chkconfig needs
: two or more commented lines added to its init.d script.
: The first line tells chkconfig what runlevels the service
: should be started in by default, as well as the start and
: stop priority levels. If the service should not, by
: default, be started in any runlevels, a - should be used
: in place of the runlevels list. The second line contains
: a description for the service, and may be extended across
: multiple lines with backslash continuation.
:
: For example, random.init has these three lines:
: # chkconfig: 2345 20 80
: # description: Saves and restores system entropy pool for \
: # higher quality random number generation.
: This says that the random script should be started in lev?
: els 2, 3, 4, and 5, that its start priority should be 20,
: and that its stop priority should be 80. You should be
: able to figure out what the description says; the \ causes
: the line to be continued. The extra space in front of the
: line is ignored.

Regards,
Ren? Pijlman

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Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

Hello Bruce,

You wrote:

I will need a diff -c, context diff, to apply this.

Sorry, I wasn't aware of that. Here it is.

Regards,
Ren? Pijlman

%diff -c /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.1.2/contrib/start-scripts/linux /etc/init.d/postgresql

*** /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.1.2/contrib/start-scripts/linux	Sat Jul 21 17:17:14 2001
--- /etc/init.d/postgresql	Sat Jul 21 17:17:59 2001
***************
*** 1,5 ****
--- 1,8 ----
#! /bin/sh

+ # chkconfig: 2345 98 02
+ # description: PostgreSQL RDBMS
+ 
# This is an example of a start/stop script for SysV-style init, such
# as is used on Linux systems.  You should edit some of the variables
# and maybe the 'echo' commands.
***************
*** 12,18 ****
#   /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S98postgresql
#   /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S98postgresql
#   /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S98postgresql
! # Or check out the chkconfig program, if you have it.
#
# Proper init scripts on Linux systems normally require setting lock
# and pid files under /var/run as well as reacting to network
--- 15,22 ----
#   /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S98postgresql
#   /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S98postgresql
#   /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S98postgresql
! # Or, if you have chkconfig, simply:
! # chkconfig --add postgresql
#
# Proper init scripts on Linux systems normally require setting lock
# and pid files under /var/run as well as reacting to network

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Patch applied. Thanks.

Hello Bruce,

You wrote:

I will need a diff -c, context diff, to apply this.

Sorry, I wasn't aware of that. Here it is.

Regards,
Ren? Pijlman

%diff -c /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.1.2/contrib/start-scripts/linux /etc/init.d/postgresql

*** /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.1.2/contrib/start-scripts/linux	Sat Jul 21 17:17:14 2001
--- /etc/init.d/postgresql	Sat Jul 21 17:17:59 2001
***************
*** 1,5 ****
--- 1,8 ----
#! /bin/sh

+ # chkconfig: 2345 98 02
+ # description: PostgreSQL RDBMS
+ 
# This is an example of a start/stop script for SysV-style init, such
# as is used on Linux systems.  You should edit some of the variables
# and maybe the 'echo' commands.
***************
*** 12,18 ****
#   /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S98postgresql
#   /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S98postgresql
#   /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S98postgresql
! # Or check out the chkconfig program, if you have it.
#
# Proper init scripts on Linux systems normally require setting lock
# and pid files under /var/run as well as reacting to network
--- 15,22 ----
#   /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S98postgresql
#   /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S98postgresql
#   /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S98postgresql
! # Or, if you have chkconfig, simply:
! # chkconfig --add postgresql
#
# Proper init scripts on Linux systems normally require setting lock
# and pid files under /var/run as well as reacting to network

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