Different systems have different conventions for starting up daemons

at boot time. Many systems have a file

<filename>/etc/rc.local</filename> or

<filename>/etc/rc.d/rc.local</filename>. Others use

<filename>/etc/rc.d/rc.local</filename>. Others use <filename>init.d</filename> or

<filename>rc.d</> directories. Whatever you do, the server must be

run by the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> user account

<emphasis>and not by root</emphasis> or any other user. Therefore you

<programlisting>

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

</programlisting>

to <filename>/etc/rc.d/rc.local</filename> or look at the file

to <filename>/etc/rc.d/rc.local</filename>

or <filename>/etc/rc.local</filename> or look at the file

<filename>contrib/start-scripts/linux</filename> in the

<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> source distribution.

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