Sounds like your using an ssl connection and it's looking for an openssl key, you need to make sure it's installed and
you'vegenerated a csr...
----- Original Message ----
> From: Dave Coventry <dgcoventry@gmail.com>
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 July, 2008 1:05:29 PM
> Subject: [GENERAL] SAST FATAL: could not access private key file "server.key"
>
> When starting Postgres I get the following:
>
>
> root@Admin:/home/it# /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 start
> * Starting PostgreSQL 8.2 database server
> * The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the
> log output:
> 2008-07-01 13:37:39 SAST FATAL: could not access private key file
> "server.key": Permission denied
>
> What is the "server key"?
>
> And how do I make it accessible?
>
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