Received: from magus.postgresql.org (magus.postgresql.org [87.238.57.229]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58DEE10190CE for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 18:28:47 -0400 (AST) Received: from asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net ([207.145.128.243]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RuAZh-0004Ze-Ft for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:28:48 +0000 Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.49]) by asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F63A706D1 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:28:23 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 32169 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2012 22:28:24 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 17158, pid: 25207, t: 0.2661s scanners: clamav: 0.88.2/m:52/d:10739 spam: 3.0.4 Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.2.17]) (sribe@elevated-dev.com@[63.227.17.6]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES128-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Feb 2012 22:28:24 -0000 Subject: Re: Starting postgres server on mac os x 10.6.8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Scott Ribe In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 15:28:20 -0700 Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <69DA7308-BA32-4FE2-BEF1-BCACB8A5F930@elevated-dev.com> References: <5D5C9409-8A0B-47B5-B48B-E64E7BD140B8@elevated-dev.com> To: Andrew Barinov X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail5.sea5 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.4 X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Archive-Number: 201202/31 X-Sequence-Number: 39091 On Feb 5, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Andrew Barinov wrote: > This is my first time trying to solve a postgres issue, I just now = realized that the command I tried before wasn't to open the logfile but = to do something else. I couldn't find the command in the postgres docs = to open and see the contents of the logfile, can you tell me what it is? Ah, there is no such command. The log file is just a plain text file and = you open it and look at it however you want: Console.app, cat or more at = the command line, pico, vim, emacs, BBEdit, TextWrangler, TextMate, = TextEdit or any of a thousand other different ways. You do need to know where it is of course, and you've used some package = manager that puts pg pieces in non-standard locations, so I can't help = you with that other than refer you to the docs, if there are any, for = that install. --=20 Scott Ribe scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice