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From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
To: apc@inel.gov (Christine Cullen)
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Subject: Re: error message - HELP! 
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apc@inel.gov (Christine Cullen) writes:
> snake% postmaster&
> [1] 566
> snake% IpcMemoryAttach: shmat() failed: Permission denied

most of the time, this means that someone started postmaster 
as one user, then did
	kill -9
of the postmaster (leaving shared memory segments lying around),
then tried to start postmaster as a different user.

running ipcclean as the first user usually clears this up.
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