On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:12:33AM +0100, Ennio-Sr wrote: > Hi all! > > [Running Debian/Lenny powerpc on an iBook.] > After upgrading from postgresql-8.1 to pg_8.3 I lost the capacity to > connect to my databases. > Besides that I just found out that 'pidof' doen't seem to work for the > ordinary user, as far as postgresql is concerned, whereas it works > regularly for other processes: > > user$ pidof /usr/sbin/apache > 19095 19094 19093 19092 19091 19088 > > user$ pidof /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin.postmaster > [nihil]
Umm you have bin.postmaster (note the . not a /) here so I'd expect that to be empty. Does it work if you use: pidof /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/postmaster You might also want to look at pgrep. Yours Tony linux.conf.au http://www.marchsouth.org/ Jan 19 - 24 2009 The Australian Linux Technical Conference! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]