Re: [ADMIN] postgres at reboot

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> When I issue: /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep postgres
> it comes back with:
>
> postgresql_ORG 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
> postgresql 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
>
> I felt a bit strange that it says 'off' at run level 6.

Run level 6 is reboot, so that's normal.

> I went into /etc/rc.d and issued:
> sudo find . -name \*postgresql\* -ls | grep S98postgresql
> and it came back with:
>
> 15618186 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 21 17:00
> ./rc4.d/S98postgresql -> ../init.d/postgresql
> 15618294 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 21 17:00
> ./rc3.d/S98postgresql -> ../init.d/postgresql
> 15618351 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 21 17:00
> ./rc2.d/S98postgresql -> ../init.d/postgresql
> 15618024 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 21 17:00
> ./rc5.d/S98postgresql -> ../init.d/postgresql
>
> Next, I went into /etc/rc.d/rc6.d and typed:
> ls -l
> and it gave me this:
> . . . . . . . . . . .
> . . . . . . . . . . .
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 21 17:00 S98postgresq ->
> ../init.d/postgresql
>
> There is an 'l' missing from the name! I thought for a moment

It shouldn't be there, sounds like someone added it by hand.

> I found the culprit, but then I issued the command below:
> /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep '6:on'
> and it returned nothing.
>
> I am a bit confused. As I understand, run level 6 means, in
> redhat context, shutdown and reboot. But it seems in my case
> nothing is turned on for level 6. Then that missing 'l'
> is really of no significance?

Right, nothing should be started for those run levels.

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