[CLUE-Tech] PostgreSQL (non-)error logging on RedHat

[Matt Gushee]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:14:47PM -0700, David Anselmi wrote:
> Matt Gushee wrote:
> [...]
> >... so all the output is going to /dev/null ?!! Both common sense and
> >the PostgreSQL manual strongly recommend keeping a log ... but before I
> >go ahead and fix it, is there any good reason for *not* logging? Or
> >should RedHat be drawn and quartered for this?
> 
> You can check postgresql.conf.  Maybe it is set to log to syslog.  On my 
> system the output of pg_ctl is saved but that file is empty.  Syslog has 
> a bunch of stuff in it though.

Unfortunately, no. Oh, well--now that I'm aware of the problem I'll set
it up in a reasonable way.

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