"Daniel J. Summers" <daniel.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I did an "strace -o strace.txt /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start" *, but > the only "socket" that was in it was in the error message. I modified > /usr/share/postgresql-common/init.d-functions to add strace to the > pg_ctlcluster call **, and there are lots of references to "socket", but > it doesn't look like it's having much success. Just for the record, this wouldn't have yielded anything interesting because you didn't use -f, so the tracing wouldn't have followed the actions of anything but the directly invoked script. What we need to see is strace of the postmaster itself. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin