Read the installation documentation that comes with the source/binaries. :-)
-Mitch
----- Original Message -----
From: "root" <Lonnie_Cumberland(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 6:48 PM
Subject: postmaster question
> Hello All,
>
> does anyone know how to get the postmaster set up properly in a native
> version of Mandrake Linux 7.1?
>
> I see that that RPM's are there, but the the backend daemon is not up
> and running. I tried to just enter "postmaster" but it says that
> I cannot be runnig it as root and that it needs it's own userid.
>
> I did not see where in the docs that the install discusses this.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> Best Regards,
> Lonnie
>
>