pidof not working for postgresql-8.3 ?

[Ennio-Sr <nasr.laili@tin.it>]

Hi all!

[Running Debian/Lenny powerpc on an iBook.]
After upgrading from postgresql-8.1 to pg_8.3 I lost the capacity to
connect to my databases.
Besides that I just found out that 'pidof' doen't seem to work for the
ordinary user, as far as postgresql is concerned, whereas it works
regularly for other processes:

user$ pidof /usr/sbin/apache
19095 19094 19093 19092 19091 19088

user$ pidof /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin.postmaster
[nihil]

Root and postgres do work regularly:
user$ su - postgres
password: ------
postgres# pidof /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin/postmaster
28957 28956 28955 28954 28952

I would like to ascertain whether this behaviour has anything to do with
the malfunctioning of pg_8.3 I'm experiencing.
Can any of you check it?

Thanks for your attention.
Regards,

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