Phil......
> I've never asked a user group for help before so I'm not sure how to go
> about this.......
You're doing fine.
> I've just purchased SuSE 9.1 Professional which uses the YaST package
> manager to install software and was wondering if anyone has successfully
> installed Postgresql 7.4.2-31 on a Pentium based machine. I installed
> all of the postgresql packages and simply ended up with a "server not
> found" message
First step is to see if the server is running. I don't know about SuSE,
there is probably something in YaST to check what processes are running.
The common command line way to check in linux is
ps aux
which gives you a list of all running processes. There should be a couple
there owned by postgres, probably, named postmaster or postgres. If not
you have to figure out how to start them on startup.
A YaST user can probably help you better, but this should get you pointed
in the right direction.
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