Re: What's this mean?

I replied to Sterling's question, but sent it to him directly, instead of
posting it to the list like I intended. I'll get the hang of this stuff
yet...

I ran across the same message a couple of days ago when I upgraded to 7.0.3 at
home. The error that's being displayed is generated by the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/posgresql script. These scripts are meant to be run at boot
time. As such, they are usually started by "root". I simply "su-ed" to root
and executed the script again. Everything started OK.

Hope this helps.

Tom Lane wrote:

> "Robert B. Easter" <reaster(at)comptechnews(dot)com> writes:
> > On Tuesday 12 December 2000 13:46, Sterling wrote:
> >> Starting postgresql service: standard in must be a tty [FAILED]
> >>
> >> I haven't seen this in any documentation.
>
> > It could be hard to tell without knowing the internals of what the script
> > "postgresql" does.
>
> I'm fairly certain that there's no such error message in the Postgres
> distribution itself. It's probably coming out of that startup script
> you're using ... why it thinks stdin should be a terminal I dunno,
> because Postgres certainly doesn't care.
>
> regards, tom lane

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