Thanks to everyone for the help. Everything is working although I am not
sure what caused my original problem. I removed the /var/lib/pgsql/data
dir, erased the postgresql RPMs, installed them again, ran an initdb and
things are working fine now.
Yes, the following postgresql RPMs were installed during kickstart:
postgresql-7.2.2-1
postgresql-libs-7.2.2-1
postgresql-server-7.2.2-1
"Mobeen Azhar"
The /etc/init.d/postgresql script actually does an initdb for me. Here is
a copy of that line from the script:
su -l postgres -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/initdb --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql/data
> /dev/null 2>&1" < /dev/null
After this line, it checks whether a PG_VERSION file exists in
/var/lib/pgsql/d
Hi All,
I just installed RedHat 8.0 on a system. I receive a failure status when I
try to start the postrgresql server by doing the following command as root:
/etc/init.d/postgresql start
It is failing because there is no PG_VERSION file at /var/lib/pgsql/data.
In the data directory, there is o
