Re: Getting started

This script is started by the boot process.  Therefore, I would say
that no permission issues would be the problem.  Yes the script has
under "start" /usr/bin/initdb
# /usr/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data/

Works! but complains about root (su) or user donn -> Permission denied
So it is a permission problem.

On 03/25/2010 10:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Donn Washburn<n5xwb@comcast.net>  writes:
>> I am new with Postgres.  I am running openSuSE 11.3 Milestone 4 and
>> their version of Postgresql-8.4
>
>> rpm -qa | grep postg
>> postgresql-libs-8.4.2-4.1.i586
>> postgresql-8.4.2-4.1.i586
>> postgresql-server-8.4.2-4.1.i586
>> postgresql-contrib-8.4.2-4.1.i586
>
>> /etc/init.d/postresql start<-fails
>
> Fails how, exactly?  (I assume you typed the script name correctly,
> not as quoted above.)
>
> I'm not familiar with openSUSE's packaging, but in a lot of PG start
> scripts you'd need to do "/etc/init.d/postgresql initdb" before you
> could issue "start" the first time.  I'd have expected the script to
> tell you so pretty clearly if that were needed, though.
>
> Another possibility is that you are trying to run the start script
> without being root, but hopefully that would give a clear permissions
> error.
>
> Really we can't do much more than guess without seeing the exact
> failure message.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

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