Re: Unable to stop postgresql ("failed") -> [SOLVED] - Mailing list pgsql-general

Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
> On 6 August 2010 17:49, Denis BUCHER <dbucherml@hsolutions.ch> wrote:
>> I was unable to stop postgres, I always got "[FAILED] :
>> �* /etc/init.d/postgresql stop
>> �* service postgresql stop
>> �* /sbin/service postgresql stop

> Surely it depends what the packager put into the init.d script?  Plus
> there's the "zap" option for some setups if you're desperate, although
> I don't know if that issues a SIGINT or a SIGQUIT.  Hopefully the
> former.  But really your init.d script should be issuing that pg_ctl
> stop command anyway, so don't know why you're getting failed messages.

I'm wondering about permissions problems.  initscripts normally only
work when called by root.  Being able to call pg_ctl directly suggests
he was logged in as the postgres user.

            regards, tom lane