Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to How do I automate the startup and shutdown of postgres?

If you want to use the provided postgresql script that's in init.d, then, yes, you should go ahead and use chkconfig --add postgresql if you want it to start automatically on startup.

This is what I do, and it works fine on my two RH 6.1  systems.  On my RH 6.2 laptop, though, occassionally the script messes up and I've not taken the time to track it down.