Re: [GENERAL] "pg_ctl: cannot be run as root"

2008-02-04 Thread Tom Lane
"Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know MacOS very well, and it's been a while that I last > had my hands on MacOS X (>2 years). Are you saying that > you use MacOS as user root by default, rather than as a non > privileged account? Certainly not. The problem was the "sudo

Re: [GENERAL] "pg_ctl: cannot be run as root"

2008-02-04 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 05/02/2008, Stefan Schwarzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But strange enough, I only can start the postgres server from time to > time, normally when I have freshly restarted the machine. Now for > example, I did some changes to the postgresql.conf file, and when > trying to restart the postgres

Re: [GENERAL] "pg_ctl: cannot be run as root"

2008-02-04 Thread Thomas Pundt
Hi, On Montag, 4. Februar 2008, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: | I installed postgres without creating another postres user/admin than | myself, as there is no other user on my machine and it's only for | testing purposes. | | But strange enough, I only can start the postgres server from time to | time,