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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
