Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 29 November 2010 7:02:46 am Mohammed Rashad wrote:
 
>> /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start
 
> Are you trying to start Postgres as root? If so Postgres will not
> run as root, 
> you will need to start it as the Postgres superuser, usually that
> is postgres.
 
Service scripts in /etc/init.d/ are normally run by root and su to
the appropriate user for the service.
 
-Kevin

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