[ic] starting postmaster with "-i" option with demodatabase

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Dan Browning)]

At 01:47 PM 3/7/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>How do you automatically start the postmaster with the "-i" option to allow
>TCP/IP connections
>when using the default demo (construction store) database in InterChange
>4.8.
>
>I uderstand the use of pg_ctl but I am unable to login as postgres and do
>not know the correct -D parameter for pg_ctl -D.
>I tried pg_ctl -D /var/lib/psql/data start when logged on as a general user
>and I get
>
>$ postmaster successfully started
>$ /usr/bin/postmaster does not find the database system.
>      Expected to find it in the PGDATA directory "/var/lib/psql/data", but
>unable to open file
>      "/var/lib/psql/data/global/pg-control/": no such file or directory.
>
>Note: I have two stores currently configured named store1 and store2.
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff

If your post was on topic, I would have said, "You didn't state your 
operating system".  See pgsql mailing lists.


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