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  From: Daryl Tester <Daryl.Tester@iocane.com.au>
  To  : Ian Hogben <hogbender@westnet.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 14:30:30 +1030

Re:

Ian Hogben wrote:

> Hello, list:

I remember you.  :-)

> 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. ;-)

Either ' or \" should have worked.  You did do it as a pair, didn't you?
i.e. :

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

-or-

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

Having said that, is -I the correct option?  I'm unsure which version
of Postgres you're using, but for 7.1.3 it looks like "-i" to enable
TCP operation (after also modifying the pg_hba.conf file).


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Regards,
  Daryl Tester,  Software Wrangler and Bit Herder, IOCANE Pty. Ltd.

"If you've studied your Floyd properly, you'd know that pigs could fly."
  -- Primus

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