"Thom Brown" <thombrown@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Actually I did "ps aux | grep post" just to cover all bases, but still > nothing.. except of course the grep itself. The overwhelming impression from here is of a seriously brain-dead startup script. It's spending all its effort on being chatty and none on actually dealing with unusual cases correctly :-(. Whose script is it anyway? My bet is that there's some discrepancy between what the script is expecting and what your intended configuration is. I'm not sure if the discrepancy is exactly the PID-file location or if it's more subtle than that, but anyway I'd suggest reading through that script carefully to see what it's actually doing. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general