Re: Dumb Newbie Question

Here is a snippet of my init script in /etc/rc.d/init.d (I'm running RedHat 6.2)

PGDATA=/var/lib/pgsql/data
su -l postgres -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p /usr/bin/postmaster -o '-B 3072
-i' start >/dev/null 2>&1"

Are you sure you are using: "postmaster -D/usr/lib/pgsql/data -i" ? There is a
missing space between -D and /usr/lib/pgsql/data

William(dot)Roberts(at)revlon(dot)com wrote:

> I installed Postgres 6.5 from RPM on Mandrake 6.0. After moving the files
> around, I finally got initdb to work. Now, for the life of me I can't seem to
> get Postmaster to startup. I am trying to start it as user Postgres with the
> following command:
>
> postmaster -D/usr/lib/pgsql/data -i
>
> >From the documentation that should work. When I try to execute that it gives a
> blank line on the terminal screen and sets there forever. The task list says
> Postmaster is running, but the terminal is locked unless I do a control z. And
> I can't connect to it from another terminal.
>
> Any thoughts.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill
>
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