Re: Postgres does not start, gives no error

--- On Wed, 9/3/08, Akhtar Yasmin-B05532 <B05532(at)freescale(dot)com> wrote:

> From: Akhtar Yasmin-B05532 <B05532(at)freescale(dot)com>
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres does not start, gives no error
> To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> Cc: "Joshua Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 11:22 PM
> Hi,
> Thanks for the prompt reply,
>
> I tried postmaster -D /home/data/www/pg7/data, but the
> error message
> still doesn't appear.
> Nothing really happens after this command.
> Is there a way I can find where the errors are logging..?
>
> Thanks n regards
>

check the log of the OS and the permissions of the directory /home/data/www/pg7/data

> -----Original Message-----
> You might try invoking the postmaster manually:
>
> postmaster -D whateveritwas
>
> which should let the error message come out on your
> terminal.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
> PS: please don't top post.
>
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