Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
> On 6 August 2010 17:49, Denis BUCHER <dbucherml@hsolutions.ch> wrote:
>> I was unable to stop postgres, I always got "[FAILED] :
>> �* /etc/init.d/postgresql stop
>> �* service postgresql stop
>> �* /sbin/service postgresql stop
> Surely it depends what the packager put into the init.d script? Plus
> there's the "zap" option for some setups if you're desperate, although
> I don't know if that issues a SIGINT or a SIGQUIT. Hopefully the
> former. But really your init.d script should be issuing that pg_ctl
> stop command anyway, so don't know why you're getting failed messages.
I'm wondering about permissions problems. initscripts normally only
work when called by root. Being able to call pg_ctl directly suggests
he was logged in as the postgres user.
regards, tom lane