On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:16:05AM -0400, Douglas McNaught wrote: > Bill Moseley <moseley@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Hum. lsof knows about the file. > > > > $ lsof -p 1512 | grep /var/run > > postmaste 1512 postgres 4u unix 0xf78b5980 1631 /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432 > > > > > > Any ideas what happened to the socket? > > Maybe something in your bootup process tried to clean up /var/run and > deleted it after the postmaster had started? That's what I thought, but my quick look couldn't find anything in the init scripts, not that that's conclusive: $ fgrep /var/run * | grep rm apache2: [ -f /var/run/apache2/ssl_scache ] && rm -f /var/run/apache2/*ssl_scache* bootclean.sh: rm -f /var/run/.clean bootmisc.sh:rm -f /tmp/.clean /var/run/.clean /var/lock/.clean portmap: rm -f /var/run/portmap.upgrade-state portmap: rm -f /var/run/portmap.state rsync: rm -f /var/run/rsync.pid rsync: rm -f /var/run/rsync.pid rsync: rm -f /var/run/rsync.pid umountnfs.sh:rm -f /tmp/.clean /var/lock/.clean /var/run/.clean But maybe postgresql is started too early. $ ls /etc/rc?.d | grep postgres | head -1 K20postgresql-8.1 K20postgresql-8.1 S20postgresql-8.1 S20postgresql-8.1 S20postgresql-8.1 S20postgresql-8.1 K20postgresql-8.1 Apache, for example, starts S91. /etc/rc2.d: K10atd S20courier-imap S20mysqld-helper S21nfs-common K10cron S20courier-imap-ssl S20netatalk S21quotarpc K10syslog-ng S20courier-mta S20nfs-kernel-server S23ntp-server S10sysklogd S20courier-pop S20ntop S25mdadm S11klogd S20courier-pop-ssl S20oidentd S30sysctl S14ppp S20darwinss S20postfix S89cron S15logical S20exim4 S20postgresql-8.1 S91apache2 S16mountnfsforlogical.sh S20grlogcheck S20rmnologin S91ifp_httpd S18atd S20httpd S20rsync S99jabber S18portmap S20httpd2 S20saslauthd S99stop-bootlogd S19spamassassin S20inetd S20ssh S99ud S19syslog-ng S20jabber S20syslog-ng S20binfmt-support S20makedev S20sysstat S20courier-authdaemon S20mysqld S20xmail > Be interesting to see if you can reproduce it... Next reboot I'll look again. It's a a production machine so I can't really bring it up one service at a time. -- Bill Moseley moseley@xxxxxxxx