[cobalt-users] <gulp!> Postgresql won't start. Lost sitelist in GUI.

["john" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While everything else seems to be fine in the GUI, I seem to have lost the
GUI main opening screen that displays the sites.  All the sidebars and
lower-level screens appear.  Best I can figure is that it has something to
do with postgresql not starting following a deletion in /var/log.  postgrsql
postgreSQL.1.gz and postgreSQL.2.gz as well as the postmaster stuff is
there, but still when starting I get messages for admin in my mailbox that
say:

Subject: the PostgreSQL server is not responding
The PostgreSQL server is down and cannot be restarted.

I ran:  [root init.d]# ./postgresql restart
and got:     Shutting down PostgreSQL: not running!
             Setting up PostgreSQL: bash: /var/log/postgresql: Permission
denied
             failed!
        [root init.d]#


While studying the archives here, I found some things that were close but
just not clear.  can anyone tell me what this really means?  Can I rebuild
this?

Thanks