If you download the administrator manual from the PostgreSQL site and study it you will find information on starting Postgres without worrying about incorporating the script in the run level system. This worked on my systems which are Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1. The command line parameters can be replaced by using the postgres.conf file which is documented in the administrator manual and is found in the /data directory of the postgres installation.
What I have had a problem with is installing the Postgres AOL server driver. I first tried the newest version downloaded from the OpenACS site but despite setting up the symlink to the shared postgres libraries, the AOL Server log reports that it cannot open the driver. The docs say that a previous version of the driver is shipped with the AOL Server distribution - but I can't find it. Has anyone had this issue? Any suggestions anyone?
