Re: Initdb fails... Again!

Dan,

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:05:39PM +0100, Dan Holmsand wrote:
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> >Hmm...I recommend getting to the bottom of this because it may stop
> >working "out of blue" sometime in the future.
>
> I had a very similar experience: sometimes postgres started, sometimes
> not.

Your problem may be not quite the same as Markko's, because the
permissions of his /tmp/MultiFile* files were "-rw-rw-rw-".

> It turned out that the "postgres" user must have write permissions to
> /tmp/MultiFileSem, otherwise both postgres and ipctest fails (when run
> from the postgres account).

Yes, the client user must have write access in order for cygipc to
function properly.

> ipc-daemon creates this file with -rw-r--r-- permissions on my
> machine.

What is the permissions of /tmp?

    $ ls -ld /tmp
    drwxrwxrwx+ 111 Administ Domain U   221184 Jan 24 06:49 /tmp

If they are not 777, then execute:

    $ chmod 777 /tmp
    $ rm -f /tmp/MultiFile*

and restart ipc-daemon as a service.

Are the permissions of /tmp/MultiFile* writable by all now?

Jason

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