Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4A71337B4A for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:25:45 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22459-04 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:25:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5BD1337B90 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:25:37 -0400 (AST) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PpUH2-00017i-PF for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:25:36 +0100 Received: from 217.110.94.67 ([217.110.94.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:25:36 +0100 Received: from spam_eater by 217.110.94.67 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:25:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org From: Thomas Kellerer Subject: Re: Moving the data directory Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:25:22 +0100 Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <4D5AFF19.8030905@gmail.com> <4D5B01AC.4040101@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.110.94.67 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 In-Reply-To: <4D5B01AC.4040101@gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.735 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.164, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201102/143 X-Sequence-Number: 36782 Sairam Krishnamurthy, 15.02.2011 23:43: > 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. And you are sure you ran that as the postgres user? Thomas