>> I would like to store the data in a directory such as /www/db
>> which would require me to tell the postmaster process on
>> startup to use the directive -D /www/db. Since this is all
>> automated, how do I go about doing that? And is the -I option
>> superfluous since it is started in runtime 3
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:50:16AM +0900, John Johnson wrote:
> I remember from years ago the joys of kill -9, but don't know
> how clean or wise it would be to do it, especially since I
> don't know how to restart the processes once I kill them.
> Thanks for the /sbin/service advice!
Joys? You wa
I have spent the morning installing apt and am VERY impressed with it. I
manually deleted all the files in /var/lib/pgsql. When I reinstalled
everything, the fresh files were put in place. Everything looking good
so far. You answered a very important question that I didn't ask about
restarts. I hav
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 04:13:30PM +0900, John Johnson wrote:
> Does anyone have the time to explain to a newbie how to get
> it so that whatever is getting started with respect to the
> postmaster no longer gets started as well has how to go about
> properly starting the postmaster with the option
Don't fret, your problem is fairly simple. The directions you were
following, like far too many other documentation for open source software,
assume that you installed postresql from sources. That is why they told you
to put stuff in rc.local for it to startup automatically at bootup. They
may h
I have a newbie problem that is driving me nuts. I installed RH9 with
postgres and PHP installed. I installed pgPhpAdmin and was getting
errors telling me I didn't have postgres support, even though the dbx
section from phpinfo() told me I did have postgres support. After hours
of newsgroup searche
