Re: Postgres won't start after setting ssl=on

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>
Cc: Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres won't start after setting ssl=on
Date: 2010-10-10 06:54:48
Message-ID: AANLkTi=SGDJL6y+6KapE+ofVCxTYd=5djqkW1QoxWqjS@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net> wrote:
> The owner of these new files needs to be the same as that of your Pg data
> dir in general or postgresql.conf specifically, and that owner be the same
> as the process that runs the Pg server.  Are you running Pg as root?  (In
> any event, you should have another user; running programs or servers as root
> when they don't need root powers is generally a bad idea.) -- Darren Duncan

Actually, unless you've hacked the pg code, it won't start as root.

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