Strange Startup Behavior

OK--We're using PG 7.3.4 on Solaris (SunOS 5.9 Generic_112233-07 sun4u
sparc SUNW,Ultra-250);
We have a home-brewed startup script in /etc/init.d which invokes
postmaster via this command:
su - ${pg_user} -c "${pg_home}/bin/pg_ctl start -D ${pg_data} -s
-l ${pg_log} -o '-i'"
After system startup, doing a pg_ctl status gives a "postmaster is running"
message--but often with a PID that does not match anything returned via ps
-ef; trying to connect remotely (say, vi pgAdmin) gives connection errors
(usually could not connect to remote socket); trying to shutdown postmaster
via pg_ctl fails--with a no process/no PID message; doing a pg_ctl start
produces multiple postmaster processes--all of which then shutdown the next
time pg_ctl stop is run;
Any ideas?

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