postgresql

Jonathan Gardner jgardner at jonathangardner.net
Fri May 7 19:46:05 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 05 May 2004 02:18 pm, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 May 2004 11:21, duncan brown wrote:
> > the postgresql rpm should automatically do the
> > chkconfig --add postgresql
>
> Being the person responsible for the community RPMs for PostgreSQL, I can
> say that they do indeed do the add already.  Long ago (PostgreSQL 7.0.x
> days, Red Hat Linux 7 days (there never was a Red Hat Linux 7.0, it went
> 7, then 7.1)) the RPM initscript had the embedded chkconfig directives
> set to have PostgreSQL ON for runlevels 3, 4, and 5, but it was decided
> to not do that but let the user do that, so the automation doesn't set it
> to ON for any runlevel.

This is a security feature -- Fedora only runs the necessary services to 
work, and everything else has to be explicitly started by the user.

-- 
Jonathan Gardner
jgardner at jonathangardner.net





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