| From: | "Gregory Wood" <gregw(at)com-stock(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Ken Guest" <kguest(at)stockbyte(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: postgres on a FreeBSD 4.5 box |
| Date: | 2002-11-01 16:22:42 |
| Message-ID: | 017401c281c2$e815b350$7889ffcc@comstock.com |
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> > I've installed postgres 7.1.3 on a FreeBSD 4.5 box using the ports
> > system, I just can't seem to get it working.
>
> > su-2.05a# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh status
> > pg_ctl: postmaster or postgres is not running
> > su-2.05a# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start
> > pg_ctl: postmaster does not start
>
> Impossible to tell anything from this, since your script is hiding
> whatever error message the postmaster might be emitting. Arrange
> for the postmaster's stderr to go someplace useful (maybe into a
> log file) and then see what it has to say.
IIRC, the standard FreeBSD PostgreSQL ports script should log to
/var/log/pgsql. Should be something useful in there.
Greg
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