Greetings. Running 7.0.3 under Debian 2.2, I'd like postmaster to start on boot with the -i option. I've got it working with just the defaults, using start-stop-daemon, but for some reason it ignores the section after the --, which the start-stop-daemon documentation claims will be passed as arguments to the executable. Here's the command from the /etc/init.d/postgres file: start-stop-daemon --chuid postgres --exec /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaste r --start /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -- -S -d -i -D/var/lib/postgres/data But here's the output of pg_ctl status: postgres@nujoma:~$ pg_ctl status pg_ctl: postmaster is running (pid: 11145) options are: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -p 5432 -D /var/lib/postgres/data -B 64 -b /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -N 32 -S If a kind soul who has this working would be willing to send me some tips I'd appreciate it. ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology (Soon: Asst Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])