Re: Permission Denied When i am Trying to take Backup

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Stefan Huber <looseleaf(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Permission Denied When i am Trying to take Backup
Date: 2001-10-11 20:03:28
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0110112115300.841-100000@peter.localdomain
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Stefan Huber writes:

> If you followed the installatino guide step by step, the postgres
> files/directories are owned by root, not by postgres.

Which is a good idea.

> I always do a chown -R postgres:daemon /usr/local/pgsql (or
> postgres:postgres) after installation.

Which is a bad idea.

The installation instructions were developed with some thought behind
them.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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