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From: Mike Olson <mao@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: Postmaster startup problem
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In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 22 Mar 1993 11:48:34 PST.
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 12:26:54 -0800
From: Mike Olson <mao@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>

In message <9303221948.AA06162@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>you write:

>   I just installed Postgres 2.1 on a Sparc 10 running 4.1.3.

presumably this is postgres 4.1...

> I created a
> Postgres user with a uid NOT equal to 6. I get the following problem when
> starting postmaster:
> 
> [retina@ /usr/local/postgres] [12]
> % postmaster &
> [1] 4893
> [retina@ /usr/local/postgres] [13]
> % IpcMemoryAttach: shmat() failed: Permission denied

do an 'ipcs'; someone already owns the shared memory regions that the
postmaster is trying to create.  do you have a postmaster currently
running?
					mike