Just as a follow up.. The same thing happened again after just going into yast and viewing the run level services. After I exit'd yast, ALL instances of postgres went down on the server.
Hi, I wanted to report a new way to shut down a postgres instance. I was troubleshooting a PAM-warning message in syslog and decided to restart slpd /etc/init.d/slpd, since I made a small change in ldap.conf, the OpenSLP daemon for the Service Location Protocol. It caused both instances of postgres ( i have 2 running a one system one 8.24 and one 8.36) to stop with a fast shutdown by admin(see below). The first time it happened right after I re-started slpd and the second time there was a 2 hour delay, then it shut down both instances. Has anyone ever seen that happen before or know why that could have caused postgres to shut down. I was troubleshooting a PAM-warn message with SLES 9 2.6.5-7.308-smp, sp4 and thought it would be worth a shot. It did stop those PAM-warnings for a while, since the instance was down. :) ~DjK < % %2009-04-17 10:22:32 EDT>LOG: received fast shutdown request < % %2009-04-17 10:22:32 EDT>LOG: aborting any active transactions <t_server %system %2009-04-17 10:22:32 EDT>FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command <t_server %system %2009-04-17 10:22:32 EDT>FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command <bb %ce %2009-04-17 10:22:32 EDT>FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command 17 10:03:04 pa PAM-warn[20051]: function=[pam_sm_acct_mgmt] service=[postgresql] terminal=[<unknown>] user=[postgres] ruser=[<unknown>] rhost=[<unknown>] Apr 17 10:03:39 pa PAM-warn[20387]: function=[pam_sm_authenticate] service=[postgresql] terminal=[<unknown>] user=[postgres] ruser=[<unknown>] rhost=[<unknown>] Apr 17 10:03:39 pa PAM-warn[20387]: function=[pam_sm_acct_mgmt] service=[postgresql] terminal=[<unknown>] user=[postgres] ruser=[<unknown>] rhost=[<unknown>] pam_radius-1.3.16-65.1 pam-0.77-221.11 pam-modules-9-18.19 pam_ldap-169-28.7 spamassassin-3.1.9-0.3 pam-32bit-9-200710171330 pam_ldap-32bit-9-200610241503 pam_smb-2.0.0rc5-38.3 yast2-pam-2.9.15-0.1 pam-devel-0.77-221.11 pam_krb5-1.3-201.12 perl-spamassassin-3.1.9-0.3 pam-modules-32bit-9-200711021346 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®:…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_more_042009
