Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05970637851 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:48:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25475-10 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:48:17 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from web25807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web25807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.10.192]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 319D96378CE for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:47:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 84939 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Mar 2009 10:21:16 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.co.uk; s=s1024; t=1238149276; bh=2Cl7gxqeUCo1K4z8U/kZQQejFXeopcOi1Sbpi1r0BwM=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=EyDI48ISD+rF/YqXxKKdOwb7OGHMdNVsJuAW7DeHSEevl/dcg5XIhNpqBbD2uADHzPQZY6ZusUPhOqxmGhtnyOxL9nKhxsaPD/mfecbcNDThBSmDXypkL8/6ui8qR7Ilqg+J0vDQXR9tFa+MwuxKSLP5LzPT+cwr8gzntMDopxg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.uk; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=zHOOjpUCJWLWrIncIXPOBHoGuQlrm8I46dVA7IjH6W4rvgjNctXrscAusEMP0n37kkYrN86jxiu7oBinPmrxW1zjSis/b/KDjVvj+p5kHE+hZ+YIDaNvZb+/WkWyEy3JCnAOTYRBlXOCoDaUi0pm5MjeTp3YquqCMVydcYjyupY=; Message-ID: <249562.84303.qm@web25807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: X6wuQccVM1n1o2ekr6euh.nkQz83NX5_2WsfxEaZ00YGE4gtpGKwPcRqy3qEPe.hqJMnB.X2xCjQstt2jVlyLEbXB2m5D7Ybb2CEttlAcpEA25VBvMHe570nvj9IbkMqNlXFC30xmTUIa2T4MeP2GTUc09PoN4Utb7Y0mFZ1_KIGMB4erjDvv48UrJ8BgkYimZuOizC1IYWlt7PWeTbQHl6jHk_.w3Gb1g-- Received: from [217.144.152.37] by web25807.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:21:16 GMT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/5.1.20 YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.1 Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:21:16 +0000 (GMT) From: val Subject: Re: pg_ctlcluster not logging error (memory problem likely) To: Tony Webb Cc: Tom Lane , pgsql-admin@postgresql.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200903/238 X-Sequence-Number: 31738 Tony Webb wrote: =A0=20 > Thanks Val. Yes, I checked the /var/log/postgresql > directory but no joy. >=20 Ok, I just had a quick look at the script and it seems that it will first c= heck if you have got 'log_filename' or 'log_directory' configured in your p= ostgresql.conf file. If not it will then check for a symbolic link named 'l= og' under your /etc/postgresql/$version/$cluster/ folder. And if this link = doesn't exist it will fall back to using /var/log/postgresql. Hope that helps. Cheers Val=0A=0A=0A