ports/92755: databases/slony1: Add ability to run slon as a different user

[Vivek Khera]

The following reply was made to PR ports/92755; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Vivek Khera <vivek at khera.org>
To: "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel at decibel.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/92755: databases/slony1: Add ability to run slon as a different user
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 21:53:56 -0500

 On Feb 6, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
 
 > I'm sure there's all sorts of better ways to do what I did... feel  
 > free.
 > :)
 >
 > BTW, if you want to get fancy, there's currently nothing in the port
 > about creating a user account. Might be best to just run under a slony
 > user by default...
 
 Personally I run under the pgsql user and use daemontools to monitor  
 and keep the slon's running.
 
 Basically, all you have to do to your patch is whack out the  
 start_slon function and it is just what we need.