I recently had a crashed disk. I recovered from backup, and made some changes to fstab.
Now I can't get postgresql to start. I get an error that no controlling tty. If I try to start it anyway it tells me that postmaster isn't in the same directory as pg_ctl (but it is). Maybe somebody else can spot what I'm missing. errors: GTX-440:/root#su - _postgresql sh: No controlling tty (open /dev/tty: Permission denied) sh: warning: won't have full job control $ pg_ctl -D data/ start sh: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied fgets failure: Permission denied The program "postmaster" is needed by pg_ctl but was not found in the same directory as "/usr/local/bin/pg_ctl". Check your installation. $ locate pg_ctl /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl /usr/local/man/man1/pg_ctl.1 $ locate postmaster /usr/local/bin/postmaster /usr/local/man/man1/postmaster.1 here's the changes I made to fstab (sd4 is the crashed disk): $ cat /etc/fstab /dev/wd0a / ffs rw 1 1 /dev/wd1a /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 1 2 /dev/wd0d /usr ffs rw,nodev 1 2 /dev/wd0b /var/squid/cache/ mfs rw,async,-s=252400 0 0 #/dev/sd0a /usr/obj ffs rw,nodev 1 2 /dev/sd3a /usr/src ffs rw,nodev 1 2 #/dev/sd4a /var/www ffs rw,nodev 1 2 /dev/sd0a /var/www ffs rw,nodev 1 2 --Bryan
