Pardon the intrusion, but I have a dilemma which I cannot find the answer to, after searching the newsgroups, documentation, and mailing lists -- My postmaster will not start. Below is a message I've posted in several newsgroups. If you could make ANY suggestions on getting postmaster to work, I would appreciated it greatly. -Thanks ------------------------- whenever I attempt to start the postmaster, I get the following error: FindBackend: found "/usr/bin/postgres" using argv[0] FATAL: StreamServerPort: bind() failed: errno=13 Is another postmaster already running on that port? If not, remove socket node (/tmp/.s.PGSQL.<portnr>)and retry. I'ts been working fine for several weeks until recently. There are no files in /tmp relating to postgreSQL. The port I'm using is not in use by another process, determined with the ps auxw|grep postma command, and also, fuser -vun tcp 5432. Here's the command I'm using to start postmaster: nohup /usr/bin/postmaster -i -B 256 -p 5432 -d -D /var/lib/pgsql >/home/postgres/pgsql.log 2>/home/postgres/pgsql.err & I'm using postgreSQL 6.3.2 under RedHat Linux 5.1. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -Thanks
