Thanks. I wasn't sure that I should do that since I didn't change
those permissions since I hadn't done anything with it. There is a
new user who is taking over admin of this machine, so I'll have to
ask if the did anything to affect this.
Barry
On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Jeff Frost wrote:
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Barry Moore wrote:
So with my minimal system admin skills I'm guessing that '/
tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432' is lock file where the system puts a lock on
port 5432 for postmaster to listen, but the pg_ctl and postmaster
commands can't create that file because /tmp is writeable only by
root (drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Feb 16 11:06 tmp). Of
course I can't start the postmaster as root, so I'm a bit
perplexed as to what to do, and why I never had this problem before.
You need to change the permissions on /tmp. I'd be curious to know
how it got this way. Has anyone done chmods on /tmp? It should be
1777/drwxrwxrwt, so a chmod 1777 /tmp should fix it for you.
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