Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-25 Thread Augori
Hmm no, I wasn't able to find it. So I definitely didn't restart it in the interim. I'm thinking I must have used the command incorrectly since I didn't really understand what it was doing. Maybe I invoked it from the wrong place? But I was at the root, according to the prompt I pasted, so I

Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-17 Thread Augori
Hi Adrian, I don't know the answer to #1. Was that a wildcard search? As for #2, I should have been more clear, that's not a check that it does every night. I just ran that check when it seemed to be down. It has been a long time to since I've worked with it, so I didn't correctly recall that

Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-17 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/17/2014 05:55 PM, Augori wrote: Hi Adrian, I don't know the answer to #1. Was that a wildcard search? It was a grep of the processes running. You replied with this: Here's what the ps command gives: root(at)server# ps ax | grep post 9165 pts/1S+ 0:00 grep post If postgres

[GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-14 Thread Augori
Hi Folks, I set up postgresql on a CentOS 5 Linux months ago. I had a process that ran every night and connected to the database. Everything was working fine until a few days ago when my process tried to connect and failed. Now I'm getting: # service postgresql status postgresql: unrecognized

Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-14 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/14/2014 05:33 PM, Augori wrote: Hi Folks, I set up postgresql on a CentOS 5 Linux months ago. I had a process that ran every night and connected to the database. Everything was working fine until a few days ago when my process tried to connect and failed. Now I'm getting: # service

Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-14 Thread Augori
Here's what the ps command gives: root@server# ps ax | grep post 9165 pts/1S+ 0:00 grep post Does this mean it's not running? It's certainly possible that software updates have occurred. There are a lot of people working on this machine, so I'm not aware of which changes have been

Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-14 Thread Tom Lane
Augori aug...@gmail.com writes: Here's what the ps command gives: root@server# ps ax | grep post 9165 pts/1S+ 0:00 grep post Does this mean it's not running? Sure looks that way. It's certainly possible that software updates have occurred. There are a lot of people working on

Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/14/2014 5:33 PM, Augori wrote: # service postgresql status postgresql: unrecognized service Does this mean it's gone? Does anyone have any suggestions? the 'service' command on rhel/centos/etc runs /etc/rc.d/init.d/$1 $2 so, ls -l /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgres*and see what the service

Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/14/2014 7:17 PM, Augori wrote: Here's what the ps command gives: root@server# ps ax | grep post 9165 pts/1S+ 0:00 grep post Does this mean it's not running? It's certainly possible that software updates have occurred. There are a lot of people working on this machine, so I'm

Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/14/2014 7:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Augoriaug...@gmail.com writes: Here's what the ps command gives: root@server# ps ax | grep post 9165 pts/1S+ 0:00 grep post Does this mean it's not running? Sure looks that way. It's certainly possible that software updates have occurred.

Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-14 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/14/2014 07:17 PM, Augori wrote: Here's what the ps command gives: root@server# ps ax | grep post 9165 pts/1S+ 0:00 grep post Does this mean it's not running? Yes, it is not running. It's certainly possible that software updates have occurred. There are a lot of people

Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-14 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/14/2014 07:52 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 4/14/2014 7:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Augoriaug...@gmail.com writes: Here's what the ps command gives: root@server# ps ax | grep post 9165 pts/1S+ 0:00 grep post Does this mean it's not running? Sure looks that way. It's certainly

Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-14 Thread Augori
Hi all, woohoo! service postgresql-9.2 status (pid 9924) is running... It seems that I was looking for the service by the wrong name, as John guessed correcty.Also, Tom, it's good to know that the data won't necessarily go away if I need to reinstall at some point. thank you so much

Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized service

2014-04-14 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/14/2014 08:25 PM, Augori wrote: Hi all, woohoo! service postgresql-9.2 status (pid 9924) is running... It seems that I was looking for the service by the wrong name, as John guessed correcty.Also, Tom, it's good to know that the data won't necessarily go away if I need to