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  From: Ian Hogben <hogbender@westnet.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 11:42:12 +0800

Hello, list:

I was never very good with shell vaguaries, and this highlights just how
weak I am here. Apologies for a FAQ.

I am trying to start postgres so that it listens to port 5432. As far as
I can see, the default method of starting is to not listen to TCP. The
actual factual line in the init.d script from a Mandrake 9 system is as
follows:

su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p
/usr/bin/postmaster start  > /dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null

Now, in order to add "-i -p 5432" to the above, I need to make it look
like this:

su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -o "-I -p 5432"
-p /usr/bin/postmaster start  > /dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null

Problem is, I have tried the ' character and also \" but it still
doesn't work. I know it's a simple matter to pass these quotes through,
but I don't know what it is. ;-)

Thanks,

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Ian Hogben

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