Re: Permission Denied When i am Trying to take Backup

Could someone create a post that shows who(user) should own
what. I have always let postgres own the pgsql directory and I see
that it is recomended that root own it.

Thanks,

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Stefan Huber <looseleaf(at)gmx(dot)net>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:03:28 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Permission Denied When i am Trying to take
Backup

> Stefan Huber writes:
>
> > If you followed the installatino guide step by step, the postgres
> > files/directories are owned by root, not by postgres.
>
> Which is a good idea.
>
> > I always do a chown -R postgres:daemon /usr/local/pgsql (or
> > postgres:postgres) after installation.
>
> Which is a bad idea.
>
> The installation instructions were developed with some thought
behind
> them.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
>
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