This is just a guess, but try changing your script to do reload instead of restart.
Robert Treat On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 05:14, Luis Sousa wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running postgresql 7.2.1 on a debian 3.0 machine and I want to do > some log rotation, but I'm having some problems. The configuration that > I'm using is: > In /etc/logrotate.d/postgres: > /var/log/postgres.log { > weekly > rotate 52 > compress > delaycompress > notifempty > create 640 postgres postgres > sharedscripts > postrotate > /etc/init.d/postgresql restart > /dev/null > endscript > } > > But when this is executed, always is returned the following error: > > pg_ctl: Another postmaster may be running. Trying to start postmaster > anyway. > pg_ctl: cannot start postmaster > Examine the log output. > > Any sugestions !! What's wrong ? > > Regards, Luis Sousa > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html