On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 07:00 -0700, Ed L. wrote: > On Tuesday November 9 2004 2:16, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 17:47 -0700, Ed L. wrote: > > > I often wonder why ipcs never seems to show the shared memory > > > block in question? > > > > The permissions of the shared memory block and the semaphore arrays are > > 600. ipcs seems not to report objects which you cannot access. Run > > ipcs as root and you should see the PostgreQSL shared memory segment and > > semaphores. > > I don't see them when running ipcs as root, either. Not sure that would > make sense given the shared memory is created as the same user running > ipcs...
If neither root nor their creator can see them, I assume they don't exist. Certainly, with Linux 2.6 and util-linux 2.12, ipcs sees the postgres objects whether it is run by root or by the postgres user. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" 1 Corinthians 15:55 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
