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From: Sairam Krishnamurthy <kmsram420@gmail.com>
To: Scott Mead <scottm@openscg.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Moving the data directory
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:43:56 -0600
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Again,

pg_ctl: could not open PID file 
"/media/extension/var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main/postmaster.pid": 
Permission denied

Tried all the different ownership possible.

Thanks,
Sairam Krishnamurthy
+1 612 859 8161


On 02/15/2011 04:37 PM, Scott Mead wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Sairam Krishnamurthy 
> <kmsram420@gmail.com <mailto:kmsram420@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Scott,
>
>     I get this error.
>
>     server starting
>     krishnam@nipa-umh:/media/extension/var/lib$ postgres: invalid
>     argument: "config_file=/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf"
>
>     tried with both -o and -c arguments.
>
>
> My mistake, I screwed up!
>
> /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_ctl start -D 
> /media/extension/var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main/ -o "-c 
> config_file="/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf"
>
>  (-c inside the quotes)
>
> --Scott
>
>     Thanks,
>     Sairam Krishnamurthy
>     +1 612 859 8161
>
>
>     On 02/15/2011 04:27 PM, Scott Mead wrote:
>>     /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_ctl start -D
>>     /media/extension/var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main/ -o
>>     config_file="/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf
>
>

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