On 1/31/08, Glyn Astill <glynastill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've noticed that by default postgres writes its log files read/write > only by the postgres user. > > I have a nagios user I want to be able to analyse the logs. > > Is there a way to make postgres output them so they can be read by a > group? Or am I going to have to write a script? PG itself only writes to stdout/stderr or uses syslog(). The way logs are generated and stored is distro-specific, so you need to look at how your distro does things (perhaps modifying the startup script). -Doug ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/