Re: command line options to pass to the postmaster - controlling UNIX socket permiss

"Dan The Man" <bitsandbytes88@hotmail.com> writes:
> I'm running postgres on a Linux server SuSE SLES.   When I run postgresql
> 8.0.3, I get /tmp/.s.PGSQLl.5432 socket open with group and owner
> permissions.  The group permissions are the default group of the postgres
> account and the owner is postgres.  If I want to start postgres with a
> non-default group called db-admins or something is that an option?

See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/runtime-config.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-CONNECTION
particularly unix_socket_group and unix_socket_permissions.

            regards, tom lane