Re: Postgres is not starting or stopping

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Shane Ambler <pgsql(at)007Marketing(dot)com>
Cc: Shoaib Mir <shoaibmir(at)gmail(dot)com>, Manish Pillai <manishg_pillai(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres is not starting or stopping
Date: 2007-02-02 20:44:31
Message-ID: 45C3A2AF.8080606@commandprompt.com
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Shane Ambler wrote:
>
>>> I am getting only this much...
>>>
>>> [root(at)KLC2 init.d]# ./postgresql restart
>>> Stopping postgresql service: [FAILED]
>>> Starting postgresql service: [FAILED]
>>> [root(at)KLC2 init.d]#
>>> How to enable log in postgres...Please help
>>>
>
> Unless you have turned it off logging is on by default (with minimum
> setting)
>
> Your prob may be knowing where the log is. By default you will find it
> in your data directory along with postgresql.conf and it will be called
> serverlog
>
> tail that file (as root) and see what shows up there

likely /var/log/postgresql

What linux is this?

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