You might see the following when issuing the normal stop command to postgres via pg_ctl. -bash-3.1$ pg_ctl stop waiting for server to shut down……………………………………………………… failed pg_ctl: server does not shut down Sometimes postgres does not want to shutdown by just issuing a pg_ctl stop as the postgres user. User might feel the need to “kill [...]

Hate when you can’t delete everything in a directory at once because rm runs out of args. This will DELETE everything in your current folder. Try this: find . -name ‘*’ -exec rm {} \; What to force it so it does not ask you y/n for each file? find . -name ‘*’ -exec rm [...]