lock file permisson

Started by Mohammed Rashadover 15 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Mohammed Rashad
mohammedrashadkm@gmail.com

when i start postgresql using
/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start
I am getting this error
IST FATAL: could not create lock file
"/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": Permission denied

I changed ownership of /var/run/postgresql using
chown postgres /var/run/postgresql
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Rashad

#2Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Mohammed Rashad (#1)
Re: lock file permisson

On mån, 2010-11-29 at 21:57 +0530, Mohammed Rashad wrote:

when i start postgresql using
/etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 start
I am getting this error
IST FATAL: could not create lock file
"/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock": Permission denied

You probably need to run this command as root.