Re: [HACKERS] Installing PostgreSQL in a Unix Platform

2004-08-24 Thread Mischa Sandberg
Ummm time to get a 'Unix in 21 days' book, because what you're relating indicates you are battling with some beginner basics: Try: $ cd /usr/local or: $ cd /usr $ cd local not: $ cd /usr $ cd /local And you can't execute a program in the current directo

Re: [HACKERS] Installing PostgreSQL in a Unix Platform

2004-08-23 Thread Eyinagho Newton
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

Re: [HACKERS] Installing PostgreSQL in a Unix Platform

2004-08-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
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 Eyin

[HACKERS] Installing PostgreSQL in a Unix Platform

2004-08-21 Thread Eyinagho Newton
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: starting/etc/init.d/postgresql"" starting postgreSQL /etc/init.d/postgresql.checkpr