Re: [GENERAL] New User: PostgreSQL Setup - The Program 'postgress' is needed by initdb but was not found in the same directory...

2011-12-19 Thread Patrick Kevin McCaffrey
Hello, I'm new to PostgreSQL, but am trying to set up a server on my machine. The PostgreSQL server is to run inside of a LXC container - I'm not sure if this is contributing to my problem or not, but it's worth mentioning. The main OS (host) of my machine is Ubuntu 11.10 (mostly,

Re: [GENERAL] New User: PostgreSQL Setup - The Program 'postgress' is needed by initdb but was not found in the same directory...

2011-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
Patrick Kevin McCaffrey p...@uwm.edu writes: I'm following the instructions that come with the source, and am stuck on this line: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data When I run it, I get the following: sh: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied This line suggests that

[GENERAL] New User: PostgreSQL Setup - The Program 'postgress' is needed by initdb but was not found in the same directory...

2011-12-18 Thread Patrick Kevin McCaffrey
Hello, I'm new to PostgreSQL, but am trying to set up a server on my machine. The PostgreSQL server is to run inside of a LXC container - I'm not sure if this is contributing to my problem or not, but it's worth mentioning. The main OS (host) of my machine is Ubuntu 11.10 (mostly, some

Re: [GENERAL] New User: PostgreSQL Setup - The Program 'postgress' is needed by initdb but was not found in the same directory...

2011-12-18 Thread Steve Atkins
On Dec 15, 2011, at 10:12 PM, Patrick Kevin McCaffrey wrote: Hello, I'm new to PostgreSQL, but am trying to set up a server on my machine. The PostgreSQL server is to run inside of a LXC container - I'm not sure if this is contributing to my problem or not, but it's worth mentioning.

Re: [GENERAL] New User: PostgreSQL Setup - The Program 'postgress' is needed by initdb but was not found in the same directory...

2011-12-17 Thread Tom Lane
Patrick Kevin McCaffrey p...@uwm.edu writes: I'm new to PostgreSQL, but am trying to set up a server on my machine. The PostgreSQL server is to run inside of a LXC container - I'm not sure if this is contributing to my problem or not, but it's worth mentioning. The main OS (host) of my

[GENERAL] New User: PostgreSQL Setup - The Program 'postgress' is needed by initdb but was not found in the same directory...

2011-12-16 Thread Patrick Kevin McCaffrey
Hello, First off, sorry if this has been received by everyone already. I sent it last night, and got an error about not being a list member, so I joined, and am resending it now. I'm new to PostgreSQL, but am trying to set up a server on my machine. The PostgreSQL server is to run inside