I've just installed postgresql82-server (8.2.4) and discovered a
problem with the instructions and
startup script supplied. How do I communicate with the port maintainers?
My problems are as follows:
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1. At the end of the installation, the following message is displayed
in my terminal window:
To create a database instance, after install do
sudo mkdir -p /opt/local/var/db/postgresql82/defaultdb
sudo chown postgres:postgres /opt/local/var/db/postgresql82/defaultdb
sudo su postgres -c '/opt/local/lib/postgresql82/bin/initdb -D
/opt/local/var/db/postgresql82/defaultdb'
The first two commands worked fine. When I executed the "sudo su
postgres -c '/opt/local...'" line, after entering
the admin password I would get the following error notification:
su: /dev/null: Permission denied
Eventually I got around the problem by instead entering the command:
sudo -u postgres bash -c '/opt/local...'
which worked. (This is probably a little convoluted as "sudo -u
postgres /opt/local..." should work too, I think.)
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2. In a similar fashion, the automatically installed file
/opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.macports/postgresql82-server/postgresql82-server.wrapper
had "su" lines which didn't succeed in starting up the postgresql
server. When I changed the lines from:
su postgres -c "${PGCTL}...
to
sudo -u postgres ${PGCTL}...
my postgresql server would be running after a reboot.
Frankly, I don't quite understand why the original version failed and
my version succeeded. I'm sure I know just enough to be dangerous.
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I'd appreciate it if someone could verify that the startup
instruction and wrapper file are incorrect, or tell me that they are
correct and that I had done something wrong.
Thanks!
-- Bill
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