| From: | Ken Guest <kguest(at)stockbyte(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Gregory Wood <gregw(at)com-stock(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: postgres on a FreeBSD 4.5 box |
| Date: | 2002-11-01 17:07:43 |
| Message-ID: | 3DC2B4DF.5020708@stockbyte.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>Ken Guest <kguest(at)stockbyte(dot)com> writes:
>
>
>>postmaster does not find the database system.
>> Expected to find it in the PGDATA directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data",
>> but unable to open file
>>"/usr/local/pgsql/data/global/pg_control": Permission denied
>>
>>
>
>You've got a file permissions or ownership problem. Offhand it looks
>like the files are owned by "pgsql" but you're probably trying to run
>the postmaster as "postgres". You can either "chown -R"
>/usr/local/pgsql/data to postgres or tweak the start script to su to
>pgsql instead of postgres.
>
>
I took a look at the socket files in /tmp and they didn't have the
correct ownership. One quick chown -R
later and everythings fine.
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