On Monday 06 May 2002 12:04 am, Tom Lane wrote: > "otisg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there a way to get a more verbose error message from PostgreSQL that > > will tell me why I can't start the DB?
> I'd venture that your /etc/rc script is preventing Postgres from telling > you anything useful. Try starting PG by hand ... or at the very least, > find out what the script is doing with the postmaster's error output. For debugging purposes, either editing /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql to change the output redirect, or enabling syslog as documented in /usr/share/doc/postgresql-7.2 (or 7.2.1, as applicable). > There are way too many of those scripts that think routing stderr > to /dev/null is a good idea. And until our stderr is rollable it will remain a good idea. Sorry. Syslog is the best bet with our current non-rollable stderr. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
