On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:27:08PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > I have just installed Postgresql 7.3.4 on my slackware 9.1 system. > The installation went fairly smoothly and the server process has > started normally:- > > postgres 21027 20767 0 20:12 pts/5 00:00:00 -su > postgres 21246 1 0 20:17 pts/3 00:00:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/postgresql/data > postgres 21248 21246 0 20:17 pts/3 00:00:00 postgres: stats buffer process > postgres 21251 21248 0 20:17 pts/3 00:00:00 postgres: stats collector process > > > However when I try and run a postgres client process as an ordinary > user I get the following:- > > FATAL: could not open configuration file "postgresql.conf": Permission denied > > As I understand it the permissions on the postgresql data directory > should be 0700 and owned by the postgresql user and this is how they > are set. So what permission(s) is this error complaining about? > Who is being stupid then! Me!!!! :-) The 'postgres' command is trying to run the server, oops. I'll go away again and shut up for the moment. -- Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence." ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match