Re: Fwd: installing postgres7.3.4 problem II

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 18:40:12 +0200,
  javier garcia - CEBAS <rn001@cebas.csic.es> wrote:
> Please, disregard my last message. I've discovered that in "password" file it
> was mentioned a path '/var/lib/psql' where Mandrake distro installed postres
> previously. I've solved it.
>
> But I still have another problem:
>
> A later step in Postgres installation instructions says:
> "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile 2>&1 &"
> and with this I obtain:
> "bash: logfile: Dennied permission"
>
> I don't know bash either, so I can't understand the problem.

You don't have access to create or write 'logfile' in the current directory.
You might want to use a full path to wherever you want the logfille to be.