Re: Upgrade from 9.5.4 to 9.6.1

On 11/15/2016 05:01 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 11/15/2016 4:55 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>> where do I look for the two bindirs?
>>
>> Assuming the bindirs are in your $PATH:
>>
>> aklaver@panda:~> whereis -f pg_ctl
>> pg_ctl: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl /usr/local/pgsql94/bin/pg_ctl
>>
>> Even if only one is the $PATH:
>>
>> aklaver@panda:~> whereis -f pg_ctl
>> pg_ctl: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl
>>
>> you can usually figure out where the other is.
>
> the RHEL style distributions don't put the actual bin dirs in the path,
> rather, they put symlinks to the common user utilities in /usr/bin
> managed via a system known as 'alternates'.

Rich is using Slackware and I am pretty sure it marches to a different
drummer.

http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=installation#2

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> john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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