There are problems with the slon start & kill scripts
on RH9.  The watchdog keeps giving error messages about
bad dashes and pointing the user to faq for procps.

Then when you try to slon_kill it only succeeds in
killing the watchdog because it errors out on the 
dash errors. You have to run it twice before killing
off the slon processes.

--elein
elein at varlena.com

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:45:09PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> After much testing and fending off bugs, we now have a release
> candidate available.  It has been tested out on quite a number of
> platforms, and numerous bugs have been "stomped out."
> 
> There are a great deal of changes since version 1.0.5, including:
> 
>  o Greatly extended documentation
>  o Logging includes date stamps
>  o Slonik now supports define/include (similar to CPP)
>  o Automatic generation of "Listen Paths" (formerly an error-prone manual process)
>  o slon daemons are greatly more configurable and can use config files
>  o Log shipping allows creating offline replicas
>  o Numerous improvements to automated maintenance
>  o Build environment no longer requires a full PostgreSQL source tree
>    This enormously eases the use of Slony-I on systems using prepackaged binaries.
>  o Numerous bug fixes
> 
> You can find a copy of the "Admin Guide" documentation online here:
> <http://developer.postgresql.org/~wieck/slony1/adminguide-1.1.rc1/>
> 
> The tarball is available here:
> <http://developer.postgresql.org/~wieck/slony1/download/slony1-1.1.0.rc1.tar.bz2>
> 
> The general idea at this point is to encourage people to run this in
> as many places as possible so as to find any lingering problems.
> 
> Testing has already taken place on numerous platforms, including:
>  - Debian/Linux/IA-32
>  - Red Hat Fedora Core 2
>  - Red Hat RHAS 3
>  - OpenBSD/SPARC
>  - Solaris/SPARC
>  - AIX/PPC
>  - FreeBSD/IA-32
> 
> There are enough variations between those platforms in terms of word
> sizes, endianness, and flavours of Unix to build some confidence; we
> hope for a 1.1 full release soon.
> -- 
> "cbbrowne","@","ca.afilias.info"
> Christopher Browne
> (416) 673-4124 (land)
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