Re: error on starting server

bob,
looks like you installed into /usr/local/pgsql/
as root then as bob you are trying to install.  The quick thing to do is just check the permissions on
the place where the error comes from

:!


creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data... mkdir: cannot create
directory `/usr/local/pgsql/data': Permission denied



On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 07:27:00PM +1200, Robert Morgan wrote:
> Hi thanks for your previous replies, I decided to remove the RH embedded
> postgresql and install from source
> which I have done and as far as I can tell everything is ok but when I
> tried to start it I got the following...
>
> [bob@localhost bob]$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "bob".
> This user must also own the server process.
>
> The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_NZ.UTF-8.
>
> creating directory /usr/local/pgsql/data... mkdir: cannot create
> directory `/usr/local/pgsql/data': Permission denied
>
> initdb: failed
> [bob@localhost bob]$
>
> any help appreciated.
>
> version is postgresql-7.4.2
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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