Re: Odd permission denied message when starting client

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:27:08PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> I have just installed Postgresql 7.3.4 on my slackware 9.1 system.
> The installation went fairly smoothly and the server process has
> started normally:-
>
> postgres 21027 20767 0 20:12 pts/5 00:00:00 -su
> postgres 21246 1 0 20:17 pts/3 00:00:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/postgresql/data
> postgres 21248 21246 0 20:17 pts/3 00:00:00 postgres: stats buffer process
> postgres 21251 21248 0 20:17 pts/3 00:00:00 postgres: stats collector process
>
>
> However when I try and run a postgres client process as an ordinary
> user I get the following:-
>
> FATAL: could not open configuration file "postgresql.conf": Permission denied
>
> As I understand it the permissions on the postgresql data directory
> should be 0700 and owned by the postgresql user and this is how they
> are set. So what permission(s) is this error complaining about?
>
Who is being stupid then! Me!!!! :-)

The 'postgres' command is trying to run the server, oops.

I'll go away again and shut up for the moment.

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Chris Green (chris(at)areti(dot)co(dot)uk)

"Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."