| From: | Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> |
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| To: | Ken Guest <kguest(at)stockbyte(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Gregory Wood <gregw(at)com-stock(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: postgres on a FreeBSD 4.5 box |
| Date: | 2002-11-01 16:36:27 |
| Message-ID: | m3r8e58cxg.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com |
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Ken Guest <kguest(at)stockbyte(dot)com> writes:
> Gregory Wood wrote:
>
> No such beast as /var/log/pgsql.
> I did get this in a logfile though:
> "
> postmaster does not find the database system.
> Expected to find it in the PGDATA directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data",
> but unable to open file
> "/usr/local/pgsql/data/global/pg_control": Permission denied
> "
>
> Here's an ls -l
> su-2.05a# ls -l /usr/local/pgsql/data/global/pg_control
> -rw------- 1 pgsql pgsql 8192 Nov 1 14:33
> /usr/local/pgsql/data/global/pg_control
> su-2.05a#
Is /usr/local/pgsql/data/global/pg_control readable by user 'pgsql'?
Does the startup script 'su' to that user before calling 'pg_ctl'?
It's possible that pg_control has the right permissions (looks OK from
the above) but one of the directories above it is locked down.
-Doug
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