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

[Jim C. Nasby]

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

From: "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel at decibel.org>
To: Vivek Khera <vivek at khera.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 21:22:53 -0600

 On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:53:56PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote:
 > 
 > 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.
 
 Do you want me to submit a new one?
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