Received: from jupiter.hub.org (jupiter.hub.org [64.49.215.5]) by postgresql.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1JGeKE15067 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:40:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from news@jupiter.hub.org) Received: (from news@localhost) by jupiter.hub.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1JGWUN45880 for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:32:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from news) From: Andrey Romanchenko X-Newsgroups: comp.databases.postgresql.admin Subject: Re: psql error Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:32:25 +0200 Organization: Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: news@hub.org User-Agent: KNode/0.6.1 To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200202/282 X-Sequence-Number: 3435 Gtrica wrote: > I'm new with postgress datbase.. > > I have started correctly postmaster, I created a database "primo" ... > Now when I try to start "psql primo" I receive the following error > "psql : FATAL 1: cannot create init file > .//base/primo/pg_internal.init.1179" > > Regards What permissions on base/primo? seems that postmaster cannot create file in directory above. -- Best regards! Andrey Romanchenko (RomanchenkoAV@belhard.com)