Hi Glyn,

It's not something silly like the /data/postgres directory being owned by
postgres and having 700 perms ?

Cheers

James

>
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:40:41 -0800 (PST)
> From: Glyn Astill <glynastill at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Slony1-general] Slony startup scripts
> To: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at ca.afilias.info>
> Cc: slony1-general at lists.slony.info
> Message-ID: <69062.47809.qm at web25804.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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>
> Hi Chris,
>
> It seems it may not be the start-stop-daemon afterall. I changed my
> script to not use it and just start via su.
>
> E.g. I have this:
>
> su - $PGUSER -c "$SLONDAEMON -f $SLONCONF &" >> "$SLONLOG" 2>&1 <
> /dev/null
> echo "su - $PGUSER -c '$SLONDAEMON -f $SLONCONF &' >> "$SLONLOG" 2>&1
> < /dev/null"
>
> And it echos to the screen the following
>
> su - slony -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/slon -f /data/postgres/slon.conf'
> >> /data/postgres/
> slon.log 2>&1 < /dev/null
>
> Does that look wrong?
>
> Either way, I end up with the following in my log file:
>
> 2008-01-10 12:34:59 GMT ERROR  could not open configuration file
> "/data/postgres/slon.conf"
> 2008-01-10 12:34:59 GMT CONFIG main: slon version 1.2.12 starting up
> usage: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/slon [options] clustername conninfo
>
> And slon.conf is there:
>
> -rwxrw-rw- 1 slony slony 4513 2008-01-09 17:55
> /data/postgres/slon.conf
>
>
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