DB start error message

From: <Felix(dot)Onyango(at)compucom(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: DB start error message
Date: 2004-12-06 14:58:10
Message-ID: 5BA671B4ADEFD5418728E128462975250205F1@SP099EXM03.compucom.local
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Why am I getting the FATAL error message below when initializing the
database. I did everything correctly as per the installation
instructions
I am running on REDHAT 9.0 Pentium 2 196 MB
Help
Solaroot
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Success. You can now start the database server using:

/usr/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
or
/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l
logfile start

bash-2.05b$ postmaster -d /usr/local/pgsql/data
FATAL: invalid value for option
'server_min_messages': 'debug/usr/local/pgsql/data'
bash-2.05b$ /usr/bin/postmaster -d
/usr/local/pgsql/data
FATAL: invalid value for option
'server_min_messages': 'debug/usr/local/pgsql/data'
bash-2.05b$

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