Re: Postmaster failing to start on reboot

surabhi.ahuja wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I reboot my machine while postmaster is up.
>
> after the m/c gets rebooted , I grep for the process "postmaster",
> and it does not find it.
>
> So,  I try starting postmaster. and it displays the following error
> message: HINT:  If you're sure there are no old server processes
> still running, remove the shared memory block with the command "ipcr
> m", or just delete the file
> "/export/home1/sdc_image_pool/dbx/postmaster.pid".
>
> does it means that i will have to delete the postmaster.pid file ..in
> such a scenarion always?

No, only when it doesn't close down properly. Check your system logs to
see what happened.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd