OT: FreeBSD help (was Re: Installing postgres)

Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I strongly suggest that you use a newer version... The current version
> of PostgreSQL is 7.4.2... 7.2 is quite old (really old).
>

To this end, you need to first install cvsup from the ports tree, read
the cvsup docs, and then cvsup the ports tree to -CURRENT. Then you
should have a nice, up-to-date pgsql to work with there.

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> Doug Dalton wrote:
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>> I installed postgres 7.2 on freedbsd 5.1 using the /usr/post dist,
>> after not finding any relations in the template1 database I deleted
>> /usr/local/pgsql/data and reran initdb, now I get the error:
>>
>> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start
>> ldconfig: mkstemp(/var/run/ld-elf.so.hints.dLieHP): Permission denied
>>
>>
>> Can anyone tell me why?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Doug
>>
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Shawn