Re: [GENERAL] pg_ctl: cannot be run as root

2008-02-04 Thread Thomas Pundt
Hi, On Montag, 4. Februar 2008, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: | I installed postgres without creating another postres user/admin than | myself, as there is no other user on my machine and it's only for | testing purposes. | | But strange enough, I only can start the postgres server from time to | time,

[GENERAL] pg_ctl: cannot be run as root

2008-02-04 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Hi there, I installed postgres without creating another postres user/admin than myself, as there is no other user on my machine and it's only for testing purposes. But strange enough, I only can start the postgres server from time to time, normally when I have freshly restarted the

Re: [GENERAL] pg_ctl: cannot be run as root

2008-02-04 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 05/02/2008, Stefan Schwarzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But strange enough, I only can start the postgres server from time to time, normally when I have freshly restarted the machine. Now for example, I did some changes to the postgresql.conf file, and when trying to restart the postgres

Re: [GENERAL] pg_ctl: cannot be run as root

2008-02-04 Thread Tom Lane
Andrej Ricnik-Bay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know MacOS very well, and it's been a while that I last had my hands on MacOS X (2 years). Are you saying that you use MacOS as user root by default, rather than as a non privileged account? Certainly not. The problem was the sudo in the