On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 11:45 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>
> > So a postgres IS running on your machine. I put it to you it's not
> > running where you think it is.
>
> When I run 'ps ax | grep post' I found a few postgres processes. I tried
> '/etc/rc.d/rc.postgresql stop' but that had no effect. I killed the lowest
> numbered process and that removed them all. However, I still cannot start a
> new postgresql process.
>
> Rich
>
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What does
$ su - postgres
$ pg_ctl -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
$ ps -ef|grep post
return
