Re: Postgres won't start after setting ssl=on - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Postgres won't start after setting ssl=on
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In response to Re: Postgres won't start after setting ssl=on  (Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net>)
Responses Re: Postgres won't start after setting ssl=on  (Mike Christensen <mike@kitchenpc.com>)
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On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> wrote:
> The owner of these new files needs to be the same as that of your Pg data
> dir in general or postgresql.conf specifically, and that owner be the same
> as the process that runs the Pg server.  Are you running Pg as root?  (In
> any event, you should have another user; running programs or servers as root
> when they don't need root powers is generally a bad idea.) -- Darren Duncan

Actually, unless you've hacked the pg code, it won't start as root.

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