Geoffrey wrote:
I"m curious as to how folks start the slony processes. I've been using root since the processes need to write to the /usr/log directory. Do folks do this a different way? I would prefer it to be the postgres user, but that doesn't seem to be possible.
It's never a good idea to run any daemon as root unless there's a genuine reason. Slony is great, but do you trust your entire system to it? Running Slon as "postgres" is also a bad idea, since that user has access to ALL postgres data. I don't think there are any known hacks/exploits for Slony, but if one turned up, it would give a hacker free access. I run the slon daemon under my own userid, and I have a separate slon logfile. Craig _______________________________________________ Slony1-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slony.info/mailman/listinfo/slony1-general
