Re: Trouble starting server

Thanks.  I wasn't sure that I should do that since I didn't change
those permissions since I hadn't done anything with it.  There is a
new user who is taking over admin of this machine, so I'll have to
ask if the did anything to affect this.

Barry

On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Jeff Frost wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Barry Moore wrote:
>
>> So with my minimal system admin skills I'm guessing that '/
>> tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432' is lock file where the system puts a lock on
>> port 5432 for postmaster to listen, but the pg_ctl and postmaster
>> commands can't create that file because /tmp is writeable only by
>> root (drwxr-xr-x   11 root root  4096 Feb 16 11:06 tmp).  Of
>> course I can't start the postmaster as root, so I'm a bit
>> perplexed as to what to do, and why I never had this problem before.
>
> You need to change the permissions on /tmp.  I'd be curious to know
> how it got this way.  Has anyone done chmods on /tmp?  It should be
> 1777/drwxrwxrwt, so a chmod 1777 /tmp should fix it for you.
>
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