On 04/14/2014 07:52 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 4/14/2014 7:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Augori<augori@gmail.com> writes:
>>> >Here's what the ps command gives:
>>> >root@server# ps ax | grep post
>>> > 9165 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep post
>>> >Does this mean it's not running?
>> Sure looks that way.
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>>> >It's certainly possible that software updates have occurred. There
>>> are a
>>> >lot of people working on this machine, so I'm not aware of which
>>> changes
>>> >have been made lately.
>> If "service" is saying it doesn't know a service it used to know,
>> then either somebody removed the relevant rc.d file (or more likely
>> the whole postgresql package), or your filesystem is corrupted.
>> The former seems more likely. /var/log/yum.log might be helpful
>> in affixing blame.
>>
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> or maybe you're looking at the wrong server or VM ?
Yea, that thought just occurred to me also.
When you did the ps ax|grep was that on the machine with the Postgres
server?
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