Re: Trouble starting server

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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