On Friday April 4 2003 11:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> "scott.marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > rotatelogs is in my path and all, it just never sees it.
>
> You mean the command fails? Or just that it doesn't capture output?
>
> > "$po_path" ${1+"$@"} </dev/null | $PGPATH/rotatelogs $logfile $DURATION
> > 2>&1 &
>
> Most if not all of the postmaster's log output goes to stderr, so you'd
> need
>
> "$po_path" ${1+"$@"} </dev/null 2>&1 | $PGPATH/rotatelogs ...
>
> to have any hope of useful results.
Hmmm. I would have agreed 2>&1 was needed, too, but this command seems to
routinely capture all output, including ERRORs:
nohup pg_ctl start | nohup rotatelogs server_log.%a 86400
Ed
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