On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 04:37:33AM -0500, Mario Bertrand wrote: Hi Mario, > > Error connecting database > Connection to database failed > FATAL 1: SetUserld: user "mbert" > is not in "pg_shadow" eventually You've forgotten to set the environment for postgres try # Settings for using postgres export PGHOME=/var/postgres export PGDATA=/var/postgres/data export PGLIB=/usr/lib export PGPATH=/usr/bin or similar, after that You must login as user `postgres` and run the createuser similar to : postgres $ createuser mbert Enter user's postgres ID or RETURN to use unix user ID: 600 -> Is user "mbert" allowed to create databases? (y/n) y Is user "mbert" allowed to add users? (y/n) y createuser: mbert was successfully added postgres $ after that postgres will run:
-- Peter