On 05/23/2015 08:23 AM, twoflower wrote: > Testing this, the problem appears to be that you forgot the keyword > "start", so pg_ctl didn't really do anything. > > I am sorry, that was just a mistake on my part here, it is in the script. > > I suspect this was left over from some previous attempt. > > It doesn't look like it. I tried several times, always looked in the log > file after that. The timestamp also suggests it was a result of my > attempts. So on my Ubuntu installs it does not set up the postgres user to allow login, so how are you getting to: su postgres -c ... Have you overridden the Ubuntu settings or created your own postgres user? The reason I ask is that I can the below to work on Ubuntu 14.04: aklaver@arkansas:~/postgres_test$ sudo su postgres -c "/usr/lib/postgresql/9.4/bin/pg_ctl -D /home/aklaver/postgres_test/9.4/main/ -o '-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf' start" server starting aklaver@arkansas:~/postgres_test$ 2015-05-23 14:02:15 PDT [20033-1] LOG: database system was shut down at 2015-05-23 13:49:04 PDT 2015-05-23 14:02:15 PDT [20037-1] LOG: autovacuum launcher started 2015-05-23 14:02:15 PDT [20032-1] LOG: database system is ready to accept connections > > One possible theory is that you had an "include" directive in the > config file in /etc, causing it to try to read the other one? > > I checked now, no "include" in there. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > View this message in context: Re: Server tries to read a different > config file than it is supposed to > <http://postgresql.nabble.com/Server-tries-to-read-a-different-config-file-than-it-is-supposed-to-tp5850752p5850763.html> > Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive > <http://postgresql.nabble.com/PostgreSQL-general-f1843780.html> at > Nabble.com. -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
