Re: postgresql /var fill

km wrote:
> nope! i have purposefully deselected postgres 7.4 installation at OS install.
> then downloaded postgresql sources of 8.1.4 and installed it in /usr/local/pgsql with data dir as /data/pgdata. later
,i have set PGDATA to /data/pgdata in startup script from contrib/scripts of sources and placed it in /etc/init.d 
> to be sure, i re-checked with rpm -qa|postgres too which didnt give me any package listing.
>
> ps auxww |grep postgresql gives /data/pgdata as the data dir.
>
> whats happening ?

Have you tried looking in /var to see what's there?

find /var -type f -msize +9999k

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd