"François" < francois.x.hetu@gmail.com> writes: > if I try at the command line to start the service: >> service postgresql start > I get: >> unrecognized service
Looking at the Fedora "service" script, it seems to want the target file to not only exist but be executable:
if [ -x "${SERVICEDIR}/${SERVICE}" ]; then env -i LANG=$LANG PATH=$PATH TERM=$TERM "${SERVICEDIR}/${SERVICE}" ${OPTIONS} else echo $"${SERVICE}: unrecognized service" >&2 exit 1 fi
So I'm thinking you forgot to set execute permission on the postgresql init file.
Having said that ... why don't you use the RPM distribution? It contains a vastly more modern init script than this thing from contrib.