Re: problem with initlocation

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 10:05, Josef J. Micka wrote:
>> i want to make database in another place and i'm unable to use
>> initlocation, and i don't know, what i'm doing wrong.
>>
>> this is what i do, and i think it's correct.
>>
>> www:/home/db/postgres$ su postgres
>> postgres@www:/home/db/postgres$ ls -l
>> total 12
>> drwx------  6 postgres postgres 4096 Aug 31 14:59 data
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 postgres postgres 4096 Aug 31 14:19 data-web
>> drwx------  3 postgres postgres 4096 Oct 15  2004 dumpall
>> postgres@www:/home/db/postgres$ /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initlocation
>> /home/db/postgres/data-web/
>> initlocation: cannot be run as root
>
> What does the command whoami say right before you would run the
> initlocation?

I think a more appropriate question would be why is he running a version
of PostgreSQL that still has initlocation?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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