Re: Postgres won't start. Nothing in the log.

From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: Tim Uckun <timuckun(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres won't start. Nothing in the log.
Date: 2009-10-05 14:16:00
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On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 17:39 +1300, Tim Uckun wrote:

> Unfortunately there is nothing anywhere telling me what the problem
> is. The log file is empty, there is nothing in the /var/log/messages
> or /var/log/syslog either. The only output I get is this.
>
> * Starting PostgreSQL 8.3 database server
> * The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output.

Is this Debian/Ubuntu? If so, the logs should be
at /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.3-main.log (or so).
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