[GENERAL] postmaster won't run

[Mark Lane]

bash$  /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
DEBUG:  Data Base System is starting up at Thu Jan 11 14:11:04 2001
FATAL 2:  Read("/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_control") failed: 2
FATAL 2:  Read("/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_control") failed: 2
Startup failed - abort