Re: Again, problem with pgbouncer

From: Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: raghu ram <raghuchennuru(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgbouncer-general(at)pgfoundry(dot)org
Subject: Re: Again, problem with pgbouncer
Date: 2012-10-03 18:01:39
Message-ID: CAFWfU=vJ1zOiEV_yB7KQbnBOJFGcWhJUHGzorzPdNbANrEnkJA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> Could you please check permission of /var/run/pgbouncer/ directory. If
>>>> pgbouncer directory does not have "postgres" user permissions,please assign
>>>> it and then start the pgbouncer.
>>>
>>>
>>> The /var/run/pgbouncer/ directory has
>>>
>>> chown -R postgres:postgres ..
>>>
>>> The port number everywhere is already 6789.
>>>
>>> What else?
>>
>>
>>
>> And just to be safe, I also added pgbouncer user to postgres group:
>>
>>
>> usermod -a -G postgres pgbouncer
>>
>>
>> Now when I restart the pgbouncess service, it fails. The log has this message:
>>
>>
>> 2012-10-01 23:25:24.004 21037 FATAL
>> Cannot open logfile: '/var/log/pgbouncer.log':
>> Permission denied
>>
>>
>> That file is owned by "postgres:postgres" as indicated in a gazillion
>> threads and documentation online (none of which is comprehensive) but
>> just to be sure I also did this:
>>
>>
>> chown :postgres /var/log/pgbouncer.log
>>
>>
>> Still the same permission error. Seriously, why can't the log message
>> be a little more useful? Why can't it say clearly WHICH USER is
>> looking for permission to the log file? Both "pgbouncer" and
>> "postgres" have permissions (through the group "postgres") on that
>> file. So which is it?
>
>
>
> I made the port number 6389 everywhere. I changed the permissions of
> the pgbouncer.log to:
>
> chown pgbouncer:postgres /var/log/pgbouncer.log
>
> Now at least the service starts. But when I try and connect via the
> pgbouncer ID:
>
> psql -p 6389 -U snipurl_snipurl snipurl
>
> I get this error:
>
> psql: ERROR: No such user: MYSITE_MYSITE
>
> And yet, the authfile has this:
>
> "MYSITE_MYSITE" "<md5 of raw password>"
> "MYSITE_MYSITE" "<raw password>"
> "postgres" "<md5 of string>"
> "MYSITE_pgbouncer" ""
>
>
> The authfile permissions are:
>
> 283377983 -rw-r--r-- 1 pgbouncer postgres 262 Apr 14 11:15
> /var/lib/pgsql/pgbouncer.txt
>
>
> What else?

No response.

Is there anyone who can help me with pgbouncer?

What are the permissions for the authfile, etc?

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