----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Dieter > > This is a completely new server install of Red Hat 8. I have tried to > use the commands that I remembered from 7.3 but they are not working. > > bash-2.05b$ postmaster -Di /var/lib/pgsql/data/ > postmaster: invalid argument -- /var/lib/pgsql/data/ > Try 'postmaster --help' for more information. no no no no.... you don't call postmaster directly, you do something like: $ service postgresql start also, you don't pass parameters to postmaster, you edit the file /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf (set tcpip_socket = true if you want to access postgres from another machine) > I am assuming that before I try your advise I need to follow the > "Prepare your SQL Server" which creates a user, and "Setup a Database > and the Tables" which does just that. But I need to start the server > first and I do not know where the server is? > > Maybe someone could explain to me why the PostgreSQL documentation > assumes you know where the server is? have you read the postgresql section in the README of redhat 8 ? /sergio
