Re: postgres on a FreeBSD 4.5 box

Tom Lane wrote:

>Ken Guest <kguest@stockbyte.com> writes:
>
>
>>postmaster does not find the database system.
>>        Expected to find it in the PGDATA directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data",
>>        but unable to open file
>>"/usr/local/pgsql/data/global/pg_control": Permission denied
>>
>>
>
>You've got a file permissions or ownership problem.  Offhand it looks
>like the files are owned by "pgsql" but you're probably trying to run
>the postmaster as "postgres".  You can either "chown -R"
>/usr/local/pgsql/data to postgres or tweak the start script to su to
>pgsql instead of postgres.
>
>

I took a look at the socket files in /tmp and they didn't have the
correct ownership. One quick chown -R
later and everythings fine.