Received: from maile.telia.com (maile.telia.com [194.22.190.16]) by hub.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e9AH4FJ76779 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 13:04:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dilbert (h234n2fls21o908.telia.com [213.64.153.234]) by maile.telia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA24254 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:04:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Gunnar Lindholm Reply-To: gunix@telia.com To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: help Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:03:52 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <39DAF188.1D61746@magnum.barc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <39DAF188.1D61746@magnum.barc.ernet.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00101019061000.00462@dilbert> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archive-Number: 200010/51 X-Sequence-Number: 845 > please help in starting the postmaster and keeping it in the same state > always ..ie started , i'm a beginner, i tried > pg_ctl,postmaster,postgres... Read the INSTALL file with the source, it should tell you alot. > my database is kept in a dir where permission is denied to the user , Which user is not denied? > and if i login as the superuser, it doesn't recognize above commands.. This might be because you have not included the binaries in your PATH? Which superuser, by the way? Best wishes Gunnar.