Received: from hub.org.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id e99NtRJ60142 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:55:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailgw.barc.ernet.in ([202.54.18.131]) by hub.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e948ruG12147 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 04:53:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from magnum.barc.ernet.in (magnum.barc.ernet.in [192.168.1.22]) by mailgw.barc.ernet.in (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA80218 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:30:13 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from sonikam@magnum.barc.ernet.in) Received: from magnum.barc.ernet.in (infoserver.barc.ernet.in [192.168.1.11]) by magnum.barc.ernet.in (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA24330 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:21:35 +0530 Message-ID: <39DAF188.1D61746@magnum.barc.ernet.in> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:29:52 +0530 From: Sonika Malhotra Organization: barc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.35 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: help Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200010/40 X-Sequence-Number: 834 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... my database is kept in a dir where permission is denied to the user , and if i login as the superuser, it doesn't recognize above commands..