Re: service not starting

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: service not starting
Date: 2004-10-10 20:40:35
Message-ID: ckc6o2$h46$1@floppy.pyrenet.fr
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Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> Got a wee small problem:
>
> [root(at)eddie data]# service postgresql start
> Starting postgresql service: [FAILED]
> [root(at)eddie data]#
>
> Can anyone point to things I need to look at to sort this. Thank got
> it's Sunday.

if you are sure that postmaster is down, try to start it manually and
see what it say:

<your_bin_path>/postmaster -D <path to your data directory>

if you are in a REDHAT or Fedora:

/usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data

the command above suppose you already did an initdb...

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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