Why not place a pkill statement before the slon startup which will kill 
any currently running slon processes?

John Sidney-Woollett

Jeff Amiel wrote:

> Does anyone have any tips to keep slon running while postgresql is 
> running and viceversa?
> 
> I was going to have my postgres startup script launch slon (along with 
> pg_autovacuum) after the database starts.
> 
> However, if the database dies, slon continues on (I think)....then when 
> I restart postgres, I'd have 2 copies of slon running.
> 
> What if there are 2 (or more) copies of slon running? what harm can come?
> 
> Has anyone written any scripts to keep the two (postgres and slon) 
> married up?
> 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
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