Setting up Postgres on Linux

scott.marlowe wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, phil campaigne wrote:
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>> Hello,
>> when I login to linux and check the env's I see:
>> PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/postgres/bin:/opt/IBMJava2-14/bin:/opt/IBMJava2-14/jre/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin
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>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
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>> However after I successfully start postgresql using
>> /etc/init.d/postgres start
>> /etc/init.d/postgres status
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>> I cannot execute the following:
>> psql testdb
>> psql: relocation error: psql: undefined symbol: PQgetssl
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>> Then if I execute from the command line:
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/lib
>> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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>> PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin:$PATH
>> export PATH
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>> then psql testdb works!
>>
>> What's going on???
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> Are you exporting those same settings in your .bash_profile or
> whatever is setting up your environ?
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Yes Scott,
I tried exporting from /root/.bash_profile and /postgres/.bash_profile.
I also added the line

/usr/local/pgsql/lib

to /etc/ld.so.conf

I don't get it.
Phil