Re: Failing to boot Postgres on Red Hat Linux

"Matthew Green" <Matthewgreen(at)intelfax(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> pg:2345:respawn:/bin/su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >> /usr/local/pgsql/logs/server.log 2>&1 </dev/null"

> This seems to execute since if we introduce a deliberate error we get a warning on reboot.
> But with the line exactly as above we get no warnings, no server.log file is generated and the postmaster task is not visible if we run "ps -A" as root.

Hmm. If the server.log file is not getting created, then the postmaster
has never had a chance to start, because that file would be opened
before the postmaster is exec'd from su.

Two thoughts: (a) does user postgres have write permission on the
directory /usr/local/pgsql/logs? (b) are you sure that your standard
runlevel is one of 2,3,4,5? (see the init line in inittab)

regards, tom lane