OpenMacNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> stop postgres
> touch PIDfile (if _not_ there)
> reboot
> --> NO launch, nothing in the logs
> verify PIDfile exists ... it does
But who is it owned by, and with what permissions? If you do the
"touch" as some other user than the postm
OpenMacNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> note that my cmd line refers to the conf file, which has the external
> PID id'd in it:
> external_pid_file = '/var/run/postgresql.pid'
Oh, now you tell us ;-)
Still, I'm not sure what could be the problem. The only code that
reacts to that setting
OpenMacNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> although i've seen nothing pid-related in my logs, preceding my startup file
> launch cmd with a pid check/delete:
>if [ -f /var/run/postgresql.pid ]; then
>rm -rf /var/run/postgresql.pid
>fi
>(launch cmd)
> seems to have done the tri
hi tom,
LOG: 0: logger shutting down
LOCATION: SysLoggerMain, syslogger.c:361
I should have twigged to that before --- if you're running the syslogger,
then nothing except very early startup messages is going to go to
stderr. Look in wherever you told it to put the log output.
i thou
