Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 722AC9FBB21 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:14:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 71977-03 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:14:38 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from web50501.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web50501.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.77]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 833C09FB8E0 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:14:41 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 56730 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Jun 2007 20:14:39 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=p5uXEUvcgerPUbsfqf6eLCkSIeX++/vymrAFzyH/W4Qn1vuNJ7HS1Bzsc/AHyAbqiavstDyczI7WVT1mVmJ0TlwQf+AhAPXIr+EXfWtg60VfPN2gOeyumFp26vsE1GkEHgMFbPlKrjoY7gK56wHqqHSKZ9oH9jts3mlngFLWTPw=; X-YMail-OSG: QH6uBrEVM1mRxDLOIMesEG3IiJykG7wnsh2BfR7XoDrgxb_B1yYRLt.zw1dLhr8qT7Odw22unt.fJnfXyIgdQPnPfDwGZe9HgwYefzVF1zJxVt.KkKPsIfczgll.OB4E5FAgq3J56sLm Received: from [66.226.245.153] by web50501.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:14:39 PDT Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 13:14:39 -0700 (PDT) From: md rahman Subject: pgsql starting problem To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <746844.55928.qm@web50501.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.356 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=BAYES_50=0.001, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.2, DNS_FROM_RFC_POST=1.708, DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS=1.447 X-Spam-Level: *** X-Archive-Number: 200706/5 X-Sequence-Number: 6574 Hi, I check after # rpm -qa | grep postgres it shows all postgres version name that means it installed but when i run /etc/init.d/postgresql status it shows postmaster is stopped then to start it i wrote [root@flex /]# /etc/init.d/postgresql start Checking postgresql installation: no database files found. initdb: invalid option: --pglib=/usr/lib/pgsql Try 'initdb --help' for more information. Starting postgresql service: failed. how to fix it? mushfiq ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/