| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Russell Davie <rjrd(at)exemail(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: changing user id |
| Date: | 2006-05-30 02:57:54 |
| Message-ID: | 19019.1148957874@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Russell Davie <rjrd(at)exemail(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> postgres(at)XXXXX:~$ /etc/init.d/postgresql-7.4 start
> chmod: changing permissions of `/var/run/postgresql': Operation not permitted
> * Starting PostgreSQL 7.4 database server:main
> Error: Could not change user id [fail]
init scripts generally expect to be launched as root. Perhaps
sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-7.4 start
would work better. Actually, I believe that on modern systems
you're not really supposed to invoke an init script directly like
that at all, but instead through the "service" program; that is,
you should really be typing something like
sudo /sbin/service postgresql-7.4 start
regards, tom lane
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