Re: problem trying to su - postgres

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Neil(dot)Thompson(at)shepway(dot)gov(dot)uk wrote:
| many thanks
|
| For info I've installed it all from cd.
|
| I tried the whoami, and although the command prompt thing says -bash-2.05b$
| it did return postgres as the user, THANKS!
|
| also tried the rpm -qa | grep postgres, this returned:
| postgresql-libs-7.3.4-3.rhl9
| postgresql-7.3.4-3.rhl9
| postgresql-server-7.3.4-3.rhl9
|
| so I guess I'm worrying over nothing, sorry. When you are learning you hope
| to see exactly whats written in the install docs. At least I now know how to
| check.
|

Yes, you were :-) but hey that's how it goes.
Although I think you were reading the install from source docs. Better off
checking the RPM part and the docs from the RPM distribution (postgresql-doc I
think). Also you may whish to install postgresql-devel and/or other devel
packages to be able to use it with python/php/perl/etc.

| Thank You
|

Cheers

| Neil Thompson
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Radu-Adrian Popescu [mailto:radu(dot)popescu(at)aldratech(dot)com]
| Sent: 07 May 2004 10:30
| To: Neil(dot)Thompson(at)shepway(dot)gov(dot)uk
| Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
| Subject: Re: [ADMIN] problem trying to su - postgres
|
|
| Neil(dot)Thompson(at)shepway(dot)gov(dot)uk wrote:
| | I'm a newbie to all things linux and have the following problem
| |
| | running red hat linux 9 i log into my pc, change to su - and type the
| | password, all is ok and i get root(at)localhost <mailto:root(at)localhost>
| |
| | I'm trying now to configure postgresql, which i installed with linux and
| | it says to su - postgres, i do this but instead of getting
| | postgres(at)localhost <mailto:postgres(at)localhost> i get -bash-2.05b$ , is
| | this right? or do i need to reinstall something / update something?
| |
|
| It is correct. You can also do a "whoami":
| [postgres(at)rpopescu postgres]$ whoami
| postgres
| [root(at)rpopescu root]# whoami
| root
| The prompt setting may be different on you machine.
|
| | Using the graphical interface i've tried to add postgres as a user as it
| | doesnt show, but it says user postgres already exists.
| |
|
| You don't specify how you've installed postgresql. On redhats you can get it
| from the installation disks. It's an older version that the current,
| obviously,
| but it looks like you're trying to get started with it, and therefore it
| should
| do. So your best bet is to try to install it from the RPMs, since it's
| easier
| than compiling it from source (not that that would be a killer or anything,
| but
| not something a newbie should be doing from day one imho).
| So step back, take a deep breath, run as root
| rpm -qa | grep postgres
| and if that comes up with 3-5 packages, you're almost done. If not, mount
| the
| cdroms and install postgresql from there (rpm -i postgresql-*.rpm).
| Have you checked the docs on the main website yet ?
|
| | An help would be greatfully received.
| |
| | Thanks
| |
| | *Neil Thompson
| | Analyst/Programmer*
| |
|
| Regards and best of luck,
| --
| Radu-Adrian Popescu
| CSA, DBA, Developer
| Aldratech Ltd.
| +40213212243

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Radu-Adrian Popescu
CSA, DBA, Developer
Aldratech Ltd.
+40213212243
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