Re: [ADMIN] Problems starting postmaster

Terry,

Thanks for your help, but I still getting the same message when I run the
following postgresql script as root:

[root(at)lelu /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start
Starting postgresql service: bash: /home/valero/.bashrc: Permission denied
bash: /usr/bin/postmaster: Permission denied
postmaster [ ]

These are the files and permissions for ~postgres (/var/lib/pgsql):

-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 4 May 5 1998 PG_VERSION
drwx------ 4 postgres postgres 1024 Nov 8 15:10 base
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Nov 8 15:10 pg_database
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Oct 14 15:41 pg_database.rpmsave
-r-------- 1 postgres postgres 2838 May 5 1998 pg_geqo.sample
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 0 May 5 1998 pg_group
-r-------- 1 postgres postgres 5100 May 5 1998 pg_hba.conf
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Nov 8 16:02 pg_log
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Oct 16 10:53 pg_log.rpmsave
-rw-rw-rw- 1 postgres postgres 64 May 5 1998 pg_pwd
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Nov 8 15:45 pg_shadow
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Oct 14 10:41 pg_shadow.rpmsave
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Nov 8 16:02 pg_variable
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Oct 16 10:53 pg_variable.rpmsave
-rw-r--r- 1 postgres postgr 46 Dec 19 15:38 server.log

Thanks once again for your kindly help

Miguel R. Valero
valero(at)ao(dot)uscourts(dot)gov

On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Terry Mackintosh wrote:

> Hi Miguel
>
> As what user are you trying to run postmaster?
>
> ALSO, as what user did you compile and install PostgreSQL as?
>
> If the answer to both is not user postgres, as root do:
> (you must have created user postgres already, and set the home dir. to the
> pgsql dir.)
>
> chown -R postgres:postgres ~postgres
> (This will give every thing the correct owner ship.)
>
> Then, either start postmaster as postgres, OR, most likely, use a start up
> script that runs as root BUT su's to postgres and starts postmaster.
> An example script is in the contrib dir..
>
> Hope that helps
> Terry
>
> On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Miguel Valero wrote:
>
> >
> > System : Redhat 5.1
> > Linux kernel : 2.0.34
> > PostgreSQL : version 6.3 (rpm)
> >
> > Problems starting postmaster. I am getting this error whenever I try
> > running PostgreSQL:
> > Starting postgresql service: bash: /usr/bin/postmaster: permission denied
> >
> > Can anyone give any assistance please?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Miguel R. Valero
> > valero(at)ao(dot)uscourts(dot)gov
> >
> >
>
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