Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Postgres not starting up

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4: Re: Postgres not starting up (response to 1)
Posted by Randy O'Meara on 03/15/05 05:04 AM
Just add a line to your startup script (in RH & Fedora it would be /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit) that removes any stale postgres sockets and run files like so:

rm -f /tmp/.s.PGSQL.*
rm -f ~postgres/data/*.pid

I do this just before the swapon command.