Thanks. I wasn't sure that I should do that since I didn't change
those permissions since I hadn't done anything with it. There is a
new user who is taking over admin of this machine, so I'll have to
ask if the did anything to affect this.
Barry
On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Jeff Frost w
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Barry Moore wrote:
So with my minimal system admin skills I'm guessing that '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432'
is lock file where the system puts a lock on port 5432 for postmaster to
listen, but the pg_ctl and postmaster commands can't create that file because
/tmp is writeable only by
I have a PostgreSQL 7.4.8 installation running on RedHat Enterprise 4
that I've been using for some time now, and haven't had any trouble
with. Recently the system went down, and now I can't seem to restart
it. I've tried running these commands as postgres user:
nohup postmaster -D /var/l
