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From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:29:04
Message-Id: 87obqhwvgl.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory by napalm@squareownz.org
1 napalm@××××××××××.org writes:
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3 > Postgres doesn't have a home directory and if I create one and chown it
4 > postgres:postgres I still can't do anything. I'm totally at a loss here.
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6 Postgres should have a home directory - /var/lib/postgresql
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8 If you run su - postgres, this is the directory you should be in.

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