Hi all, Using a MacBook Pro. Snow Leopard installed along with XCode I have 8.4.1 compiled from tar.gz. It lives in /usr/local/postgresql-8.4.1 which is owned by root. the data subdirectory is owned by postgres. A link exists from /usr/local/postgres to postgresql-8.4.1. PGDATA is /usr/local/postgres/data I can run okay with /usr/local/postgres/bin/postmaster -D ${PGDATA} I have tried to copy/build/modify a plist to start up automatically. The file below is named org.postgres.launchd.plist and it is in /Library/LaunchDaemons. I have fashioned it after dBEnterprises'. file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Disabled</key> <false/> <key>Label</key> <string>org.postgres.launchd</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/usr/local/postgres-8.4.1/bin/postmaster</string> <string>-D</string> <string>/usr/local/postgresql-8.4.1/bin</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> <key>UserName</key> <string>postgres</string> </dict> </plist> after saving, I launchctl load /Library/LaunchDarmons/org.postgres.launchd.plist then launchctl list | grep postgres returns 2 org.postgres.launchd but when I launchctl start org.postgres.launchd Nothing happens. ps ax |grep postmaster does not show postmaster running. Any ideas or assistance is greatfully appreciated. Bob -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general