I just upgraded my home gentoo system's postgresql from 8.2.14 to 8.4.2. I use it mostly for fooling around and keeping smatterings of personal data, so it was simple laziness which kept me from upgrading sooner, triggered by the gentoo switch back in 8.2.mumble in how they manage postgresql. Everything went smoothly except the permissions of the directory /var/run/postgresql with the domain socket .s.PGSQL.5432. This dir had permissions of 770, owned by postgres.postgres, so no mere mortals could access it. I have changed this to 775 and can now access it. Didn't 8.2 put these in /tmp? Maybe this was a gentoo thing. What should the permissions be for this? Or does gentoo do their own thing and there is a different "standard" way of handling this? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@xxxxxxxxxxx GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general