Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.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 16:33:11
Message-Id: 06436366-57E8-464A-A742-EACD50B0D477@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Postgres suddenly can't access files in its /etc directory by napalm@squareownz.org
1 On 23 April 2012, at 22:18, napalm@××××××××××.org wrote:
2 > …
3 > 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 If you want to say something like "Postgres doesn't have a home directory", please post the output of `grep -i postgres /etc/passwd`. Maybe also the output of `echo ~postgres`.
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8 Right now I assume you're looking in /home and not seeing /home/postgres. I assume you're running `mkdir /home/postgres`. This is not how home directories are created and allocated.
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10 Stroller.