Re: Trouble installing Drupal 5 using sockets (a little long)

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Frank Bax <fbax(at)sympatico(dot)ca> wrote:
> Bryan wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to get my little ALIX server that is running OpenBSD
>> 4.4-current to run pgsql. I've been successful in installing 8.3.3,
>> and since OpenBSD uses a chrooted environment, I intend on using unix
>> sockets for making database connections. I read the man pages, ran
>> "initdb -D /var/postgresql/data -U postgres -A md5 -W" and edited the
>> /var/postgresql/data/postgresql.conf file to read:
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> In postgresql, assuming an `admin' account has all rights:
>>
>> createuser -U admin --pwprompt --no-superuser --createdb --no-createrole
>> drupal
>> createdb -U drupal -E UTF8 drupal
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> When I type the following:
>>
>> # createuser -U admin --pwprompt --no-superuser --createdb
>> --no-createrole drupal
>
>
> You are running createuser under your "root" account and root is not a
> priviledged user of pgsql under OpenBSD.
>
> 1) login as the pgsql "admin" user (I think it's _postgresql; I changed it
> on my system). this was created for you if you used OpenBSD package to
> install pgsql.
> # su - _postgresql
> 2) Issue the createuser and createdb commands from that account.
>

Frank,

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I did do it with the _postgresql
user, I just was stupid in the copy paste. I hit "#", then pasted the
output. The error you see above is using _postgresql as the user. I
did run the command again making sure I was _postgresql and the error
above is still valid.

I was further reading about people who were taking the source and
building postgresql. As a option, you can set the socket directory to
be used by the program when you build it? Shouldn't the
postgresql.conf override that directive?

Regards,
Bryan