On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Isiah Thomas wrote: > I read some docunment say that to start the postgres service must type this > command > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgres start That's pretty specific to RedHat and RedHat-derived systems. (And then, only if you install PostgreSQL from the RPMs, which if you're using RedHat, you probably are). A less distribution-specific way of saying the same thing is $ service postgres start But, really, you probably want to do something like $ pg_ctl -- Joel Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]