> Is whitespace important? Tabs? The number of spaces? > Ohhhkaaaayyy... so, what settings would be needed to get usable logs? > Set everything that has "log" in the name to "true"? --postgresql.conf redirect_stderr = true log_directory = 'pg_log' log_filename = 'postgresql-%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S.log' log_rotation_size = 10240 log_min_messages = info log_line_prefix = '%t%%%d ' These are the setting in my conf file. Also, when start postgresql: This page is a good source for capturing postmaster messages http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/postmaster-start.html pg_ctl start -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l serverlog serverlog is the name and location of would you want postmaster logs. check your /ect/init.d/ script and /etc/conf.d/ conf for adding this functionality. Regards,