tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane) wrote in message news:<25631.996872872@sss.pgh.pa.us>...
> <rocael@usa.net> writes:
> > FATAL 1: configuration file `postgresql.conf' has wrong permissions
>
> > One thing to note is that before I rebooted linux I did this:
> > chmod 755 -R /usr/local/pgsql
>
> That was a bad idea. 700 is the most permission you should have on the
> /usr/local/pgsql/data directory. I am not sure why the code is so picky
> about postgresql.conf and not about the data directory as a whole ---
> but it will refuse to start up if postgresql.conf has more than 744
> permissions.
>
> regards, tom lane
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I experienced this problem as well, I changed permissions on
/usr/local in order to get our samba share to work, and the next day
the database would not start.
744 will allow the postmaster to start again.
Dan
