Re: Need some help setting up pgAgent

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> Okay I found one that I can use..
>>>>
>>>> One question..  Should the connection string in the script have the
>>>> password for "root" hard coded in it?  Or will it use a password from
>>>> ~/.pgpass automatically?  If so, what user account will it find the
>>>> .pgpass file under?  Thanks!
>>>
>>> Have the script start pgagent under the postgres account eg;
>>>
>>> su - postgres -c 'p/path/to/pgadmin....'
>>>
>>> Then it should be able to use postgres' pgpass file. Don't put the
>>> password in the connection string!
>>
>> Ok, that worked..  I can at least start and stop it now, and it
>> remains running when I'm logged off..
>>
>> So does anything in /etc/init.d get automatically run when the server boots?
>
> No, you have to enable it. On redhat based distros, you'd do something
> like "chkconfig <servicename> on". On Debian based distros, I believe
> you use the update-rc.d command.

Well, I guess that worked:

etc/init.d# update-rc.d pgagent defaults
Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/pgagent ...
/etc/rc0.d/K20pgagent -> ../init.d/pgagent
/etc/rc1.d/K20pgagent -> ../init.d/pgagent
/etc/rc6.d/K20pgagent -> ../init.d/pgagent
/etc/rc2.d/S20pgagent -> ../init.d/pgagent
/etc/rc3.d/S20pgagent -> ../init.d/pgagent
/etc/rc4.d/S20pgagent -> ../init.d/pgagent
/etc/rc5.d/S20pgagent -> ../init.d/pgagent

Thanks!