Re: [ADMIN] pg_ctl won't start postgres, but postmaster will?!

2003-08-28 Thread Yuji Shinozaki
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Steve Santacroce wrote: Sorry, forgot to write that. It was in the line. The wierd thing is that I can type: /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl -D /pgdata -l /var/log/pgsql start and it will start, but if I use: su -l pgsql -c exec /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl -D /pgdata -l /var/log/pgsql

Re: [ADMIN] pg_ctl won't start postgres, but postmaster will?!

2003-08-26 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Santacroce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl -D /pgdata -l /var/log/pgsql and nothing, postmaster still doesn't start! You forgot the start keyword. I'm surprised pg_ctl fails to complain... regards, tom lane ---(end of

Re: [ADMIN] pg_ctl won't start postgres, but postmaster will?!

2003-08-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Steve Santacroce writes: chmod 600 ${logfile} chown pgsql:pgsql ${logfile} [ -x ${PGBIN}/pg_ctl ] { su -l pgsql -c \ [ -d \${PGDATA} ] exec ${PREFIX}/bin/pg_ctl start -s -w -l ${logfile} echo -n ' pgsql' No errors, no messages, nothing. Then I

Re: [ADMIN] pg_ctl won't start postgres, but postmaster will?!

2003-08-26 Thread Steve Santacroce
chmod 600 ${logfile} chown pgsql:pgsql ${logfile} [ -x ${PGBIN}/pg_ctl ] { su -l pgsql -c \ [ -d \${PGDATA} ] exec ${PREFIX}/bin/pg_ctl start -s -w -l ${logfile} echo -n ' pgsql' No errors, no messages, nothing. Then I tried to start

[ADMIN] pg_ctl won't start postgres, but postmaster will?!

2003-08-25 Thread Steve Santacroce
I have had a lot of problems trying to install the postgres on a second FreeBSD box. I installed it using the ports install, so that part of the process went painlessly. however, when I tried to run the .sh script file that was installed, I get nothing. The script's commands are: chmod 600