Is there any special commands that should be used to execute the slonik
scripts?
What is slon_tools.conf. Should this be configured for using slony1?
thanks
josh

On Dec 11, 2007 5:07 PM, Josh Harrison <joshques at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks
>
>
>
> > > Hi
> > > Im a newbie to slony.
> > > I installed slony and im trying tis example given in this website.
> > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7834
> > > I created the databases as mentioned and the website says...
> > > " Once the databases are created, we are ready to create our database
> > cluster containing a master and a single slave. Create the Slonik
> > cluster_setup.sh script
> > > and execute it. "
> > > My question is
> > > Where should I create this Slonik cluster_setup.sh script and how to
> > execute it?
> >
> > As long as you have PATH defined to have psql/slon/slonik in it, it
> > doesn't much matter where you create the script.
> >
> > In practice, we have found it a useful thing to create a directory
> > structure somewhere on our systems to organize the scripts used for
> > various system maintenances, so that we might have:
> >
> > mkdir -p $HOME/slony/2007-10-03-create-cluster-foo
> > mkdir -p $HOME/slony/2007-10-06-create-cluster-bar
> > mkdir -p $HOME/slony/2007-11-15-upgrade-cluster-bar
> > mkdir -p $HOME/slony/2007-12-10-failover-cluster-foo
> >
> > where each of those directories has scripts relevant to the activity
> > in it.
> >
> > In our environment, we often use the RT/3 ticketing system to manage
> > these procedures, so the directory name might contain a ticket number
> > to make it easy to crossreference between files and tickets.
> >
> > It's really a matter of organizing work activity; Slony-I doesn't
> > force you into any of this.
> > -
>
> How do you execute these scripts? Does slony automatically takes these
> scripts when you run the slon?
>
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