Обсуждение: postmaster logfile
What’s a good way to start the postmaster, send the log info to a logfile somewhere, and return the linux prompt?
v8.2.0 on suse64
Thanks
-dave
On Dec 3, 2007 2:35 PM, Gauthier, Dave <dave.gauthier@intel.com> wrote: > > What's a good way to start the postmaster, send the log info to a logfile > somewhere, and return the linux prompt? Use whatever startup script comes with the pacakge for your OS. I.e. in redhat or suse you should have a postgresql script that lives in /etc/init.d/ that gets symlinked to the appropriate /etc/rc.d/rcx.d directory. > v8.2.0 on suse64 You should really be running at least 8.2.4, preferable 8.2.5. 8.2.0 has some nasty bugs.
Well, I can start the server with.... postmaster -D /myplace/db ... and then... ^z bg ... to get to the prompt. But each/every time a message from the postmaster gets logged, it goes to stdout of the current window. I want it to go to a logfile. Attempts to redirect with "&" all seem to fail. "postmaster -d myplace/db -l logfile start" (as was in the message right after the initial db create) doesn't seem to work. I'll request v8.2.5. Thanks for the advise. -dave -----Original Message----- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 4:13 PM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] postmaster logfile On Dec 3, 2007 2:35 PM, Gauthier, Dave <dave.gauthier@intel.com> wrote: > > What's a good way to start the postmaster, send the log info to a logfile > somewhere, and return the linux prompt? Use whatever startup script comes with the pacakge for your OS. I.e. in redhat or suse you should have a postgresql script that lives in /etc/init.d/ that gets symlinked to the appropriate /etc/rc.d/rcx.d directory. > v8.2.0 on suse64 You should really be running at least 8.2.4, preferable 8.2.5. 8.2.0 has some nasty bugs.
Gauthier, Dave escribió: > Well, I can start the server with.... > > postmaster -D /myplace/db > > ... and then... > ^z > bg > > ... to get to the prompt. But each/every time a message from the > postmaster gets logged, it goes to stdout of the current window. I want > it to go to a logfile. Attempts to redirect with "&" all seem to fail. > "postmaster -d myplace/db -l logfile start" (as was in the message right > after the initial db create) doesn't seem to work. Enable the redirect_stderr config option in postgresql.conf. That should do the trick. You can change the log file name and directory on postgresql.conf too. initdb doesn't say you can use -l in postmaster; it is talking about pg_ctl. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/CTMLCN8V17R4 "MySQL is a toy compared to PostgreSQL." (Randal L. Schwartz) (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-07/msg00517.php)