[cobalt-users] Postgres is not running and it will not restart

[rdkurth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

I can not get postgres to start on my Raq4 server. I have rebooted 
and that did not  help, When I ssh into the server and su to root I 
then run  
[root init.d]# ./postgresql start 
I get this error 
Setting up PostgreSQL: bash: /var/log/postgresql: Permission denied 
failed! 

I also thought I would just rebuild that database but because 
postgresql is not  running I can't seam to be able to do that ether. 
This is what I get when I try to dump  the database. 
pg_dump cobalt > cobalt.dump psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() 
failed: Connection refused 
        Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' 
        and accepting connections on Unix socket '5432'?  

Can somebody tell me what I need to do to fix this problem