[ADMIN] installing without shell access

2008-11-10 Thread Dana Holland
Is it at all possible to get pgsql installed on a system without access to a shell? A friend is wanting me to install a particular bulletin board system on her website; however, her hosting plan only provides the MySQL database - the bulletin board requires pgsql. And her hosting plan has no

Re: [ADMIN] installing without shell access

2008-11-10 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:50:09AM -0600, Dana Holland wrote: > Is it at all possible to get pgsql installed on a system without access > to a shell? A friend is wanting me to install a particular bulletin > board system on her website; however, her hosting plan only provides the > MySQL databa

Re: [ADMIN] installing without shell access

2008-11-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Dana Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it at all possible to get pgsql installed on a system without access to a > shell? A friend is wanting me to install a particular bulletin board system > on her website; however, her hosting plan only provides the MySQL

Re: [ADMIN] installing without shell access

2008-11-10 Thread Thomas Pundt
Scott Marlowe schrieb: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Dana Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it at all possible to get pgsql installed on a system without access to a shell? A friend is wanting me to install a particular bulletin board system on her website; however, her hosting plan only

Re: [ADMIN] installing without shell access

2008-11-10 Thread Aras Angelo
gmake install requires root privileges. It wont install with regular httpd user (apache, nobody etc.) on a php-shell script or php system command functions. On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Thomas Pundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Marlowe schrieb: > >> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Da

Re: [ADMIN] installing without shell access

2008-11-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
You do NOT have to have root priviledges. I've built postgresql more than once without it and made it work. What you do need is to install it to your local home directory where the apache user has priviledges and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or whatever it's called, it has been a while) and you're golden

Re: [ADMIN] installing without shell access

2008-11-10 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:54:57AM -0700, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > Is it at all possible to get pgsql installed on a system without access to a > > shell? A friend is wanting me to install a particular bulletin board system > > on her website; however, her hosting plan only provides the MySQL dat