hi, how did you install PostgreSQL? from source or from dmg? which user are
you using to start the instance?
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 00:22:47 +0100, Philippe Schmid wrote
> Dear list,
>
> I have a problem starting PG 8.0 on a OSX machine, getting this
> FATAL: could not open lock file "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock":
> Permission denied
>
> I checked the privs on /tmp
> ls -ld /tmp
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 4 Oct 2003 /tmp -> private/tmp
>
> ls -ld /private/tmp
> drwxrwxrwt 21 root wheel 714 4 Feb 00:09 /private/tmp
>
> and of course, PG 8.0 starts on another machine, with the same OS
> version 10.3.7, PG version 8.0, configuration.
> Nothing found in system, console logs.
>
> Did someone already experienced this ?
> Many thanks for some ideas, I can't see what's wrong... (ok, its
> late...)
>
> Philippe
>
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