Slony1 PostgreSQL Replication

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Slon init script

Ian Burrell

2005-07-25, 8:29 pm

Does anyone have an init script they use to start slon daemons on startup?

- Ian

Vivek Khera

2005-07-26, 1:24 pm

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Christopher Browne

2005-07-26, 1:24 pm

Vivek Khera wrote:

>
> On Jul 25, 2005, at 6:22 PM, Ian Burrell wrote:
>
>
> I tried that once, but then discovered that if your Pg instance is in
> recovery mode (ie, after a crash or other unclean shutdown) your slon
> won't start up right. What I do is run under daemontools, which will
> keep trying to run slon until it succeeds or is told to stop.
>
> I have a script I distribute with the FreeBSD port to create the
> daemontools environment... I s'pose I should contrib that now that
> I've been reminded...
>
We use a script that runs as a cron job that periodically shuts off and
restarts the watchdogs.

That doesn't disturb a slon that is running, but will certainly restart
things when the system restarts...

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