On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Andrew Gould <andrewlylego...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:06 AM, stan <st...@panix.com> wrote: > > > I have installed PostgreSQL via the ports on a new 7.1 machine. I am > trying > > to set it up. > > > > I found: > > > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/postgresql.php > > > > Whic says to run: > > > > su -l pgsql -c initdb > > > > But that gives me the following error message: > > > > initdb: no data directory specified > > You must identify the directory where the data for this database system > > will reside. Do this with either the invocation option -D or the > > environment variable PGDATA. > > Go into the port directory for postgresql71 and so "make deinstall". After that, do script -a ~/PGSQL-INSTALL.txt make install clean Once that is done, go ito the ~/PGSQL-INSTALL.txt and read the lines towards the bottom. Those are sometimes calles Post-install message. They tell you exactly what to do on FreeBSD. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest." Rodney Dangerfield _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
