Re: Couldn't start postgres, got no logging, ran postgres manually for info-- help?

Hi Oliver,

Il 12/07/2013 04:07, Wells Oliver ha scritto:
> I ran:
>
> pg_ctlcluster 9.1 main start
>
> Received:
>
> The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output.
>
> But, hey, in /var/log/postgresql, there was absolutely no logging.
> Nothing. After some googling, I tried:
>
> usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin/postgres -D /data/postgresql/9.1/main -c
> config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf
>
> From the command line, which spit out to the terminal:
>
> 2013-07-12 02:04:05 GMT [30091]: [1-1] FATAL: data directory
> "/data/postgresql/9.1/main" has group or world access
>
> OK, so where the heck did this error message go when I was running
> pg_ctlcluster? It would have saved me a lot of time.

By default pg_ctlcluster script redirects postmaster's stderr into
/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-9.1-main.log.
This works only if log_destination is stderr and logging_collector is
disabled, else the logs are stored where configured by log_destination,
log_filename and log_directory in your postgresql.conf file.

Advice is to look into your postgresql.conf how (and if) logging is
configured.

Regards,
Giuseppe.

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