DB start error

[solaroot]

Why am i receiving the 'FATAL' error when starting the database. Please see below.
Solaroot.


Success. You can now start the database server using:

/usr/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
or
/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l
logfile start

bash-2.05b$ postmaster -d /usr/local/pgsql/data
FATAL: invalid value for option
'server_min_messages': 'debug/usr/local/pgsql/data'
bash-2.05b$ /usr/bin/postmaster -d
/usr/local/pgsql/data
FATAL: invalid value for option
'server_min_messages': 'debug/usr/local/pgsql/data'
bash-2.05b$

 

[MorganGreylock]

Here is the line from rc.local that runs postmaster for me:

postmaster -i -D /var/

http://www/database

The -i is to allow TCP/IP connections (which you may or may not need, and probably shouldn't give that kind of error)

What kind of permissions do you have on your /usr/local/pgsql/data directory?

My data directory is chmod 700, owned by postgres:root
(Postgres is the user under which the postmaster runs, I assume its probably the same for your system)

Hope that helps,
MG