On 1/27/04 2:54 PM, "Scot Jenkins" <scot+tcluggen at thinkunix.net> wrote: > try this: > su - > su - postgres > cd /var/backups/postgres > touch some_file > > does that work? That worked. I was able to create an empty file using touch. > is the postgres user in the "postgres" group (see /etc/group)? It wasn't as it turned out. I added the postgres user to the postgres group: postgres:x:32:postgres I got the same errors after making the changes you suggested: pg_dump: [custom archiver] could not open archive file /var/backups/postgres/mtdb.out: Permission denied Interesingly, there is a zero-length file in /var/backups/postgres created by the backup script: -rw-r--r-- 1 root postgres 0 Jan 27 15:16 mtdb.out Any other suggestions? -Tim -- Tim Wilson Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA Educational technology guy, Linux and OS X fan, Grad. student, Daddy mailto: wilson at visi.com aim: tis270 public key: 0x8C0F8813 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list