Re: Don't know where to begin

Mark Cannata wrote:
  >I've been trying to use Postgresql on Redhat Linux  for a while now with
  >no success.
  >I can't get the postmaster to start (I'm trying to start it as postgres)
  >
  >I can't get initdb or createdb  to run
  >the directory for pgsql is in /var/lib, is this the right directory?
  >I've read the postmaster man page and the documentation at the Postgres
  >site, but I can't seem to get anywhere.

Create a user `postgres' (or get your sysadmin to do it.)

Become user postgres and run initdb; nothing else will work until that is
done.  initdb creates the basic database structure; read its man page to
check what options you may need.

If you can't make that work, post a copy of initdb's output so that we
can see what the problem is.



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