Could someone create a post that shows who(user) should own 
what. I have always let postgres own the pgsql directory and I see 
that it is recomended that root own it. 

Thanks,

Ted


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Stefan Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:03:28 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Permission Denied When i am Trying to take 
Backup

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Eisentraut   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   
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