Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> Got a wee small problem:
>
> [root@eddie data]# service postgresql start
> Starting postgresql service: [FAILED]
> [root@eddie data]#
>
> Can anyone point to things I need to look at to sort this. Thank got
> it's Sunday.
if you are sure that postmaster is down, try to start it manually and
see what it say:
<your_bin_path>/postmaster -D <path to your data directory>
if you are in a REDHAT or Fedora:
/usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
the command above suppose you already did an initdb...
Regards
Gaetano Mendola
