At 06:28 PM 28/05/03 -0700, you wrote:
What happens if you shell in as root and try to start PostgreSQL manually? /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start Also, check the permissions on /tmp. There is some combination of events that sometimes sets them wrong, making PostgreSQL unable to write files there and preventing it from starting up properly. On my RaQ 4r, /tmp and /var/tmp look like: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 24 19:51 tmp -> /home/tmp/ and /home/tmp looks like drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 25600 May 28 18:35 tmp/ -- Bruce Timberlake
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 28 19:37 tmp -> /home/tmp drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 May 28 20:30 tmp - Bill --------------------------------- William J.A. Brillinger Precision Design Co. E-Mail: mailto:billy@xxxxxxxxxx Web site: http://www.pdcweb.net