Re: PgAgent output

[Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>]

Eric Shuman wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I need some help resolving an issue with PgAgent.
>
> Whenever a job runs I get a lot of output to the terminal.  This can be
> quite disrupting when trying to do other work while it is running.
>
> I have upgraded to the recent 1.6.3 version and tried using the -s option
> but this has not stopped the output to stdout.  The log file specified gets
> created, but is never populated with any data.  How do I suppress the output
> from pgAgent????
>
> I am using this command to start pgagent:
> /usr/bin/pgagent -l 0 -s /GIS/pgagent.log hostaddr=127.0.0.1 dbname=postgres
> user=Postgres
>
> This is on a Debian Etch system and pgagent was installed via apt from one
> of the postgresql mirrors.

It works for me using SVN-trunk (and pgAgent hasn't really changed in a 
long time):

dpage(at)developer:/usr/local/src/pgadmin3/xtra/pgagent# ./pgagent -l 2 -s 
/tmp/pgagent.log hostaddr=127.0.0.1 dbname=postgres user=postgres
dpage(at)developer:/usr/local/src/pgadmin3/xtra/pgagent# ps aux |grep pgagent
dpage	7466  0.0  0.2   5796  2188 pts/1    S    07:35   0:00 ./pgagent 
-l 2 -s /tmp/pgagent.log hostaddr=127.0.0.1 dbname=postgres user=postgres
dpage(at)developer:/usr/local/src/pgadmin3/xtra/pgagent# tail -f 
/tmp/pgagent.log
DEBUG: Checking for jobs to run
DEBUG: Sleeping...
DEBUG: Clearing inactive connections
DEBUG: Connection stats: total - 1, free - 0, deleted - 0
DEBUG: Checking for jobs to run
DEBUG: Sleeping...
DEBUG: Clearing inactive connections
DEBUG: Connection stats: total - 1, free - 0, deleted - 0
DEBUG: Checking for jobs to run
DEBUG: Sleeping...

I'm not sure what to suggest - I assume you're stating it from an init 
script or similar; I assume there are no typos in there?

Regards, Dave