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From A.Bhuvaneswaran
Subject Re: postgres start failed
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0304070956070.1046-100000@Bhuvan.bksys.co.in
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In response to postgres start failed  (Vittorio Zuccala' <vitto.z@tiscalinet.it>)
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>     i can't start my postgres server!!
> I've a Mandrake 9.0 and i installed postgres width Mandrake DrakConf...
> So i hope the installation was fine because i told me so...
>
> Then i became root and give the command: "/etc/init.d/postgres start"
> It responds: "Starting postgres service:  [FAILED]".

Have a look in the log file. I suppose, it wasn't enabled by default. Edit
you /etc/init.d/postgres file and add '-l logfile' option to the pg_ctl
start and stop commands. Get back if you have problems still.

regards,
bhuvaneswaran

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