Starting the Replication Daemons
Now that you've created all of the replication nodes and defined the paths that connect them, you can start the replication daemons. Every node in the replication cluster must be serviced by a running copy of the slon program. You typically run slon as a background, or daemon, process. The slon program accepts a number of configuration options that you can specify on the command line or in a separate configuration file. I recommend the configuration file approach, since you have a complete record (hopefully, a well-commented record) of the options that you actually used the last time you started the daemon.
Listing 24.5 shows a configuration file that tells slon how to service the springfield node.
Listing 24.5. ...
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