Re: service not starting

Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> Got a wee small problem:
>
> [root@eddie data]# service postgresql start
> Starting postgresql service:                               [FAILED]
> [root@eddie data]#
>
> Can anyone point to things I need to look at to sort this.  Thank got
> it's Sunday.

if you are sure that postmaster is down, try to start it manually and
see what it say:

<your_bin_path>/postmaster -D <path to your data directory>

if you are in a REDHAT or Fedora:

/usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data

the command above suppose you already did an initdb...


Regards
Gaetano Mendola