Hi Chris,

Thanks for the info.

I seem to be struggling using the conf file, I did

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/slon -f /data/postgres/slon.conf
>/data/postgres/slon.log 2>&1 &

I've specified the connection string and cluster in the conf file. Am
I missing something here?

Glyn

--- Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at ca.afilias.info> wrote:

> Glyn Astill <glynastill at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> > Until now I've been starting the slon daemon from the command
> line,
> > and now I wan't to move it to a startup script. Looking over
> things I
> > see I'm probably going to be best using a slon.conf file now as
> well.
> > this leaves me with a few questions.
> >
> > 1) I don't see any parameter in the slon.conf to set where my
> logs
> > go. Is this possible or do I just have to pipe the output to a
> file
> > like I'm already doing?
> 
> slon makes no attempt to redirect output; you capture it as you
> like.
> 
> > 2) further to the above, can slony rotate it's logs
> automatically?
> > I.e. so I can have a new log file every day?
> 
> There are numerous tools for this purpose that are generic to all
> kinds of log files; no point in having Slony-I duplicate this kind
> of
> functionality.
> 
> > 3) I've had a look athe the supplied script for redhat, although
> I'm
> > using Debian so theres going to be a few differences. One of
> these is
> > that I've been stopping the slons with "kill <processid>", the
> redhat
> > script uses "killproc slon". How can I kill the slon in my
> script?
> > read the .pid file?
> 
> Yes, that's the reason for capturing the PID in that file.
> 
> > 4)I've jsut discovered the altperl scripts in the docs, and they
> look
> > really useful. The docs say to run configure with
> "--with-perltools"
> > before compiling and they'll get installed. I didn't do this. can
> I
> > install the altperl scripts without a recompile?
> 
> You'll need to rerun "configure", but that doesn't force you to do
> a
> recompile of anything in /src/...
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> "Everything should  be made as  simple as possible, but  not
> simpler."
> -- Albert Einstein
> 



Glyn Astill



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