On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:49:36 +0200 "Raul Secan" <raul@xxxxxxxxxxx> sat down, thought long and then wrote: > I saw that in /etc/init.d/ dir I already have postgresql, so the service is > installed, bu wehn try to run: > > service postgresql start > > I receive: > > Initializing database: [FAILED] > Starting postgresql service: pg_ctl: no operation mode specified > Try "pg_ctl --help" for more information. > -sh: line 2: -p: command not found > > Anyway I just edit the postgresql file and see something anormal there I > think: > > export PGDATA=/var/lib/pgsql/data > > But my Postgresql data dir is /usr/local/pgsql/data. > > Can someone tell me what is going on? > Thanks. > On SuSE distributions for example, if you use (or ever installed) the shipped PostgreSQL release, you find a startstop-script, which also does not work with a self compiled release (and also uses /var/lib/pgsql/data as PGDATA). If it´s the same with your distribution, simply delete this script. I recommend the start-script you find in "/contrib/start-scripts/linux" in the PostgreSQL tarball. Copy it to /etc/init.d and follow the further instructions inside this script. Don´t forget to chmod it executable. For me it works very well on several servers. Regards, Frank.
