Re:

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:18:23PM -0400, Mehta, Ashok wrote:
> I am running postgres on RedHat Linux It was running fine and our sysadmin
> added a scsi tape device to the kernel and rebooted the machine so the
> postmaster was killed with -9 signal and after that when I start postmaster

did the sysadmin kill postmaster with -9 or reboot, or both.

reboot does not normally kill things off with a -9, depending on the system
it uses a progression of other nicer signals.

killing postmaster with -9 is bad, as it doesn't give the process any chance
to do shutdown/cleanup functions, which might include clearing the socket in
/tmp.

this might also explain why you got the error after kill -9/reboot, but didn't
get it after a normal reboot.

if your sysadmin is going around using "kill -9" as a standard shutdown method,
well, you might want to speak to them about this, as it isn't really a nice
way to deal with things.

> I get
> FATAL: StreamServerPort: bind() failed: Permission denied
> Is another postmaster already running on that port?
> If not, remove socket node (/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432) and retry.
> postmaster: cannot create UNIX stream port
>
> I have rebooted the machine since then and there is no file in /tmp
> directory to be removed. I am absolutly positive that another postmaster is
> not running and that file does not exist.
>
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Ashok
>

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