Richard E Miles said: > |I have postgresql server running on my system however when the system > |restarts I always have to run postmaster ?D postgresSQL is there a > |command to get this to run automatically so I don?t have to do this > over |and over again. > > > You need to set postgress to run at startup. > chkconfig -add postgresql > reboot wrong syntax, slmost wrong direction. the postgresql rpm should automatically do the chkconfig --add postgresql (notice the double -) and then you wnat to make sure that it's running at runlevels 3 and 5 chkconfig --level 35 postresql on also, if you're a CLIaphobe, do this: (start/redhat/whatever) -> system settings -> server settings -> services you can enable and disable through that. +( duncan brown : duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx )+ +( linux "just works" : www.linuxadvocate.net )+ -------------------------------------------------- Understatement of the century: "Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones" - Linus Torvalds, August 1991 --------------------------------------------------