Re: Permissions problem on new install

Tom, I lost running system and had to restart. I could not get system to
restart until user 'postgres' cd'd to /data things are going now and I have
created user, etc. OK. I left message I was preparing before sucess below.
No telling what I had done.

Thanks a lot,
--sad
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aborted draft follows:
Tom, this seemed like the most likely source of problem (silly typo).
Howeever, I was scrolling back in terminal window and saw correct entries
when I posted the problem.

I have since had to reboot system (yea I know a real guru would have been
able to ssh in and kill hung xprocess, but that's not me and I am not sure
what the host needs to allow the other box, a Windows machine, in etc.).
The long and short is I can no longer go look at my entries and I now cannot
get postgres to restart! Current problem(s):
trying:
su postgres
postmaster -D /var/local/
.
.
.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "sdeel" <sdeel(at)cox(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Permissions problem on new install

> "sdeel" <sdeel(at)cox(dot)net> writes:
> > "psql: FATAL 1: cannot open /var/lib/pgsql/data/global/1262: Permission
> > denied
>
> /var/LIB/pgsql ...? I suspect you made a silly typo in either initdb
> or starting Postgres ... you wanted /var/LOCAL/pgsql, no?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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