Comment 33 for bug 193696

I seem to be on the same bug, I can see it is in discussion but not what to do about it.

Downloaded ubuntu server 23 June 09
Installed today and selected postgresql as part of the install.

I couldn't get it to start up -

 ./postgresql-8.3 start
 * Starting PostgreSQL 8.3 database server
 * Error: Could not create log file /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.3-main.log

I have tried all sorts of chown and rights on the directory and file, nothing works.

I loaded up webmin and it can't seem to make head-nor-tail of this postgresql install either.

createdb example - seemed to work, but as I can not get into pgsql I can't actually confirm it.

My main reason for loading ubuntu server into a VM was as a database server (and a few other bits), but I can't see any actual reason why postgresql will not run.

Those who have got it running, what did you actually do?