Re: Installing PostgreSQL in a Unix Platform

Dear Drake,

Thanks for your response and suggestions on what i
should do to solve the above problem.

I have tried it and here are the results i had:

doing a cd /usr from the command line took me into
usr directory. However when i tried to do another
cd /local from the above resulting command line, i
got the following error:

bash: cd: /local: no such file or directory.

I later tried to change directory again to 'bin' and
therein i found 'pg_ctl' . However, when i tried to
click on it, i got a display message with the words
'couldn't find the program "pg_ctl" . Again, i tried
to enter shell command as a superuser, and through it
executed the following shell command cd /usr and then
cd /bin. When in the bin directory, i did an 'ls'
command but couldn't find pg_ctl. I suspect that it
truely wasn't installed.

What should i do next please?

Cheers,

Newton Eyinagho

--- "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> If you are compiling from source then the postgresql
> startup script does
> not get installed.
> You can use pg_ctl in /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl to
> start postgresql.
> Alternatively you
> can install the startup script from the contrib
> directory startscripts/linux
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
> Eyinagho Newton wrote:
>
> >It has been impossible to install PostgreSQL, an
> open
> >source software, from my SUSE 8.0 . Although it
> tells
> >you its been installed, each time i try to start it
> >using SysV-Init Editor, i get the following
> message:
> >
>
><start>starting</start><cmd>/etc/init.d/postgresql</cmd>""<br/>
> >starting postgreSQL
> >/etc/init.d/postgresql.checkproc:command not found
> >....done
> >
> >What exactly am i doing wrong? Or better still,
> what
> >haven't i done yet? Please help me
> >
> >Newton Eyinagho
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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