Dear Drake, Thanks for your response and suggestions on what i should do to solve the above problem.
I have tried it and here are the results i had: doing a cd /usr from the command line took me into usr directory. However when i tried to do another cd /local from the above resulting command line, i got the following error: bash: cd: /local: no such file or directory. I later tried to change directory again to 'bin' and therein i found 'pg_ctl' . However, when i tried to click on it, i got a display message with the words 'couldn't find the program "pg_ctl" . Again, i tried to enter shell command as a superuser, and through it executed the following shell command cd /usr and then cd /bin. When in the bin directory, i did an 'ls' command but couldn't find pg_ctl. I suspect that it truely wasn't installed. What should i do next please? Cheers, Newton Eyinagho --- "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > If you are compiling from source then the postgresql > startup script does > not get installed. > You can use pg_ctl in /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl to > start postgresql. > Alternatively you > can install the startup script from the contrib > directory startscripts/linux > > Sincerely, > > Joshua D. Drake > > Eyinagho Newton wrote: > > >It has been impossible to install PostgreSQL, an > open > >source software, from my SUSE 8.0 . Although it > tells > >you its been installed, each time i try to start it > >using SysV-Init Editor, i get the following > message: > > > ><start>starting</start><cmd>/etc/init.d/postgresql</cmd>""<br/> > >starting postgreSQL > >/etc/init.d/postgresql.checkproc:command not found > >....done > > > >What exactly am i doing wrong? Or better still, > what > >haven't i done yet? Please help me > > > >Newton Eyinagho > > > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > >http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > >---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > >TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please > send an appropriate > > subscribe-nomail command to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your > > message can get through to the mailing list > cleanly > > > > > > > -- > Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - > S/ODBC and S/JDBC > Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and > dedicated hosting. > +1-503-667-4564 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > http://www.commandprompt.com > PostgreSQL Replicator -- production quality > replication for PostgreSQL > > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
