su -c Problem

[Simon]

Hi all,

This is driving me wild... Am setting postgres up on a Redhat 6.1 box... Problem is the init.d script refuses to work.. I have traced the problem down 2 one line

su - $PGUSER -c "$DAEMON start -o '-i' -D '$PGDATA' -s -l $PGLOG"

Linux refuses to accept the '-c' option, ie..
while

su - postgres "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -o '-i' start -D /usr/local/pgsql/data"

will work (But not in the script)

su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -o '-i' start -D /usr/local/pgsql/data"

returns the following error...

pg_ctl: no operation mode specified
Try 'pg_ctl --help' for more information.

I assume there is a problem with the SU command ?

Many thanks

Simon

[ 22 May 2001: Message edited by: Simon ]

[Bradmont2]

try putting -c before the username; also, I'm not sure why you have - and -c at the same time; you may want to try taking out the lone -.