| From: | Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com> |
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| To: | Barry Moore <barry(dot)moore(at)genetics(dot)utah(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Trouble starting server |
| Date: | 2006-02-16 18:30:58 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.64.0602161029100.2892@glacier.frostconsultingllc.com |
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On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Barry Moore wrote:
> So with my minimal system admin skills I'm guessing that '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432'
> is lock file where the system puts a lock on port 5432 for postmaster to
> listen, but the pg_ctl and postmaster commands can't create that file because
> /tmp is writeable only by root (drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Feb 16 11:06
> tmp). Of course I can't start the postmaster as root, so I'm a bit perplexed
> as to what to do, and why I never had this problem before.
You need to change the permissions on /tmp. I'd be curious to know how it got
this way. Has anyone done chmods on /tmp? It should be 1777/drwxrwxrwt, so a
chmod 1777 /tmp should fix it
for you.
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