Postmaster not starting

Hi Bruce,
some great steps forward. Actually postgres is called from postmaster
and display's the usage() from postgres. I have compared it with older
version's but can't see anything strange here.

Postgres itself runs if called with a database. BTW how should I stop
it. I have tried stop, exit, bye, quit, and halt.  ^C worked!

marliesle# su - postgres
marliesle$ postmaster -i 2>&1 &
[1] 15187
marliesle$ Usage: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres [options] [dbname]
    -B buffers    set number of buffers in buffer pool
    -C         supress version info
    -D dir        data directory
    -E         echo query before execution
    -F         turn off fsync
    -P port        set port file descriptor
    -Q         suppress informational messages
    -S buffers    set amount of sort memory available
    -d [1|2|3]    set debug level
    -e         turn on European date format
    -o file        send stdout and stderr to given filename
    -s         show stats after each query
    -v version    set protocol version being used by frontend
[1]+  Exit 1                  postmaster -i 2>&1

-Egon