On 05/02/2008, Stefan Schwarzer <stefan.schwarzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But strange enough, I only can start the postgres server from time to > time, normally when I have freshly restarted the machine. Now for > example, I did some changes to the postgresql.conf file, and when > trying to restart the postgres server, I get this: ... > PS: Running Leopard on MacPro. I don't know MacOS very well, and it's been a while that I last had my hands on MacOS X (>2 years). Are you saying that you use MacOS as user root by default, rather than as a non privileged account? Cheers, Andrej -- Please don't top post, and don't use HTML e-Mail :} Make your quotes concise. http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/htmlmail.htm ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings