>On my Sco-Openserver Unix machine, I need to start the postmaster like this

>nohup pg_ctl -o -i start &


Heres what I get:

/bin/nohup: appending output to 'nohup. out'

and in nohup out:

postmaster starting
postmaster cannot access the server configuration file "/boot/home/webserver/databases/postgresql.conf" No such file or directory.

My database folder is in boot/home. Should this be moved?

The DB can be anywhere

Export the PG variables or run the pg_ctl as follows

nohup pg_ctl -o -i -D /wherever/your/data/dir/is start &

My postgresql.conf is located in /usr/local/pgsql/data, so my command
would be

nohup pg_ctl -o -i -D /usr/local/pgsql/data start &


Mark Campbell

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sam karush wrote:
> >On my Sco-Openserver Unix machine, I need to start the postmaster
> like this
>
> >nohup pg_ctl -o -i start &
>
>
> Heres what I get:
>
> /bin/nohup: appending output to 'nohup. out'
>
> and in nohup out:
>
> postmaster starting
> postmaster cannot access the server configuration file
> "/boot/home/webserver/databases/postgresql.conf" No such file or
> directory.
>
> My database folder is in boot/home. Should this be moved?