Re: postgres on a FreeBSD 4.5 box

Doug McNaught wrote:

>Ken Guest <kguest(at)stockbyte(dot)com> writes:
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>>Gregory Wood wrote:
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>>No such beast as /var/log/pgsql.
>>I did get this in a logfile though:
>>"
>>postmaster does not find the database system.
>> Expected to find it in the PGDATA directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data",
>> but unable to open file
>>"/usr/local/pgsql/data/global/pg_control": Permission denied
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>>Here's an ls -l
>>su-2.05a# ls -l /usr/local/pgsql/data/global/pg_control
>>-rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 8192 Nov 1 14:33
>>/usr/local/pgsql/data/global/pg_control
>>su-2.05a#
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>Is /usr/local/pgsql/data/global/pg_control readable by user 'pgsql'?
>Does the startup script 'su' to that user before calling 'pg_ctl'?
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>It's possible that pg_control has the right permissions (looks OK from
>the above) but one of the directories above it is locked down.
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As an aside to this I've recompiled the kernel with a few flags tweaked
(NMBCLUSTERS) so,
being thorough (unnecessarily?) I'm recompiling postgresql on the off
chance that it needs to
pick up on the changes.
Then I'm going to do a reinstall and edit the startup script. I'll let
you know how I progress.

thanks

Ken

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