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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 94 12:07:53 +0200
From: bfroehli@AWI-Bremerhaven.DE (Bernd Froehlich)
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Subject: IpcMemoryAttach
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Resent-Date: Thu, 04 Aug 94 10:13:55 -0700
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I got some strange behavior from Postgres.
Last week I tried to start the postmaster and got the following error message:

edvs6% postmaster &
[1] 3284
edvs6% IpcMemoryAttach: shmat() failed: Permission denied

The funny thing is: when I was logged in under my own name I could start the postmaster, only as postgres user it was not possible to get it running.
Even installing postgres again did not help.
Now I experimented a little and found out that when I run newbki and specify my own login then I can start the postmaster as user postgres and get the error when I try to start it under my login.
Since the manuel states that you always should use newbki with the postgres login I am not sure what to do. How can I get things straight???
P.S. I am working on a SUN Sparc station

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