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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2004-05-14 20:01:19 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2004-05-14 20:01:19 +0000
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Properly document rotatelogs, and add mention of it to pg_ctl manual page.
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<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml,v 1.25 2003/11/29 19:51:39 pgsql Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml,v 1.26 2004/05/14 20:01:19 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -87,13 +87,13 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
server is started in the background, and standard input is attached to
<filename>/dev/null</filename>. The standard output and standard
error are either appended to a log file (if the <option>-l</option>
- option is used), or redirected to <application>pg_ctl</application>'s
+ option is used), or redirected to <application>pg_ctl</application>'s
standard output (not standard error). If no log file is chosen, the
standard output of <application>pg_ctl</application> should be redirected
- to a file or piped to another process, for example a log rotating program,
- otherwise <command>postmaster</command> will write its output to the controlling
- terminal (from the background) and will not leave the shell's
- process group.
+ to a file or piped to another process such as a log rotating program
+ like <application>rotatelogs</>; otherwise the <command>postmaster</command>
+ will write its output to the controlling terminal (from the background)
+ and will not leave the shell's process group.
</para>
<para>