Everytime I try to restart postgres it give me following messages:

-bash-3.2$ pg_ctl restar
pg_ctl: unrecognized operation mode "restar"
Try "pg_ctl --help" for more information.
-bash-3.2$ pg_ctl restart
pg_ctl: PID file "/var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid" does not exist
Is postmaster running?
starting postmaster anyway
pg_ctl: could not read file "/var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.opts"
-bash-3.2$


is that normal? Message says "starting postmaster anyway", does it still
restarting for me? 

Ian Lea wrote:
> 
> You seem to be bombarding this list with similar messages!  Slow down ...
> 
> The message means that postgres is shutting down, not slony.
> 
> Fix that first, probably using pg_ctl.  $ pg_ctl --help shows the options.
> 
> When postgres is up and running, on both master and slave databases,
> start your slony processes.
> 
> To stop slony, you can kill the slon processes.  Googling for "stop
> slon" will find you more information.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Ian.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:08 AM, roctaiwan<nettreeinc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was trying to start my slon cluster and following messages says:
>>
>>
>> -bash-3.2$ slon sql_cluster "dbname=contactdb user=postgres"
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:08 CST CONFIG main: slon version 1.2.15 starting up
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:08 CST DEBUG2 slon: watchdog process started
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:08 CST DEBUG2 slon: watchdog ready - pid = 12620
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:08 CST FATAL  main: Cannot connect to local database -
>> FATAL:  the database system is shutting down
>>  - sleep 10s
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:08 CST DEBUG2 slon: worker process created - pid = 12621
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:18 CST DEBUG2 slon_retry() from pid=12621
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:18 CST DEBUG1 slon: retry requested
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:18 CST DEBUG2 slon: notify worker process to shutdown
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:18 CST DEBUG2 slon: child terminated status: 0; pid:
>> 12621,
>> current worker pid: 12621
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:18 CST DEBUG1 slon: restart of worker
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:18 CST CONFIG main: slon version 1.2.15 starting up
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:18 CST DEBUG2 slon: watchdog process started
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:18 CST DEBUG2 slon: watchdog ready - pid = 12620
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:18 CST DEBUG2 slon: worker process created - pid = 12649
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:18 CST FATAL  main: Cannot connect to local database -
>> FATAL:  the database system is shutting down
>>  - sleep 10s
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:28 CST DEBUG2 slon_retry() from pid=12649
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:28 CST DEBUG1 slon: retry requested
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:28 CST DEBUG2 slon: notify worker process to shutdown
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:28 CST DEBUG2 slon: child terminated status: 0; pid:
>> 12649,
>> current worker pid: 12649
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:28 CST DEBUG1 slon: restart of worker
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:28 CST CONFIG main: slon version 1.2.15 starting up
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:28 CST DEBUG2 slon: watchdog process started
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:28 CST DEBUG2 slon: watchdog ready - pid = 12620
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:28 CST DEBUG2 slon: worker process created - pid = 12651
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:28 CST FATAL  main: Cannot connect to local database -
>> FATAL:  the database system is shutting down
>>  - sleep 10s
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:33 CST DEBUG1 slon: shutdown requested
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:33 CST DEBUG2 slon: notify worker process to shutdown
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:33 CST DEBUG2 slon_retry() from pid=12651
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:33 CST DEBUG1 slon: retry requested
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:33 CST DEBUG2 slon: notify worker process to shutdown
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:33 CST DEBUG1 slon: shutdown requested
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:33 CST DEBUG2 slon: notify worker process to shutdown
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:33 CST FATAL  main: write to worker pipe failed -(9) Bad
>> file descriptor
>> 2009-07-20 17:02:33 CST DEBUG2 slon: exit(-1)
>> (I press ctrl+c to stop it)
>> -bash-3.2$
>>
>>
>> I seems like my server is shutting down? Does it mean my Postgresql or
>> Slony
>> is shutting down? shutting down meaning it's not down yet and is still
>> trying to shut down? how can i fix it?
>>
>>
>>
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