On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Geoffrey wrote:

> I"m curious as to how folks start the slony processes.  I've been  
> using root since the processes need to write to the /usr/log  
> directory.  Do folks do this a different way?  I would prefer it to  
> be the postgres user, but that doesn't seem to be possible.

I run it as the same user my postgres runs as.  What is this mythical  
"/usr/log" directory of which you speak?  I have no such directory,  
nor would I ever store user generated data into the /usr partition.