That was the problem, the permissions on /tmp were 0700 with my user
acct. as owner and staff as group. I changed the permissions to 0777
and now the server will start up okay.
Thank you for your help Scott.
On Nov 02, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
On 11/2/07, Myshkin LeVine <myshlev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I have a problem starting the server on Mac OSX 10.3.9. I
compiled
v8.2.5 from source. The compilation, regression testing, and
installation all went smoothly with no errors. I installed PostgreSQL
in the default location and created a new user account named postgres.
I ran initdb which ended successfully. When I try to start the server
I
get this error message: 'FATAL: could not open lock file
"/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": Permission denied' I have checked the
mailing-list archives and I see others have had the same problem, but
no solution for my case. The file ".s.PGSQL.5432.lock" does not exist
already in the /tmp directory. The server will start however in
single-user mode using the --single switch to the postgres command,
giving me this: "PostgreSQL stand-alone backend 8.2.5
backend>" Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or how to fix this?
What's the permissions on .tmp?
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