Re: Transaction Logs Recycling Problem

BTW,
    What is ntsec?

2/18/2003 11:09:30 PM, "Colin Mangiagalli" <colin@camara.co.za> wrote:

>Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote ..
>> "Colin Mangiagalli" <colin@camara.co.za> writes:
>> > Could these permission denied errors have been cause by the fact that
>> > ntsec was off and the permissions weren't set correctly on the
>> > data folder.
>>
>> If the folder permissions were wrong, then every single attempt to
>> create or rename a log file would have failed, I'd think.  It sounded to
>> me more like a few of the individual log files had wrong ownership or
>> permissions.  If you ran initdb as Administrator then the
>> originally-created log file would have belonged to Administrator, but
>> the additional ones would have belonged to postgres --- that might
>> explain the behavior.
>>
>>             regards, tom lane
>
>Hi
>
>This morning I see the database was down. I had a look at the
>permissions on the log files. THey are owned by Administrator and
>permissions are (rw r r) .This is on the machine that I haven't
>changed yet, doesn't have ntsec on and is on the domain.
>
>The interesting thing is, when the database stops, it always stops at
>just after 7pm, but the network guys assure me that nothing is happening
>over the network at that time (ie. backups, etc)
>
>The other machine I have, randomly seems to fall over, but since I took
>it off the domain, it has been working fine.
>
>If I set ntsec, do I need to run export the database, run initdb and then
>import the database again, or can I just change ownership to postgres and
>set the permissions.
>
>I think I need to set ntsec and see if the problem goes away.
>
>
>Thanks for all the help
>Colin
>
>
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