Hi, Last night I had trouble getting user authentication working with type 'password' ('crypt' works just fine), and to see what was going on in the postmaster, I wanted to turn on some debugging. But no matter what option I tried (-d 1--3 for postmaster, -d 1--3 for backend), I couldn't get more output than 'creating INET Stream port' (or something like that). I remember that in the past (with 6.2) I used to get tons of messages, including the environment the postmaster was started in etc. I use something like the following to start the postmaster (from head): BOPTS="-o debug-log -d 1" echo "postmaster -S 1024 -F -d 1 -o $BOPTS >> log 2>&1 &" | su postgres as I said, this is from head. With 6.2 this worked, now running 6.3.2. Am I missing something obvious here? Maarten _____________________________________________________________________________ | TU Delft, The Netherlands, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems | | Department of Electrical Engineering | | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------