Re: [ADMIN] postgresql-6.3.2 question

From: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)lan2wan(dot)com>
To: Andy Lewis <alewis(at)mpsi(dot)net>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-admin(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, David Humphreys <dhumphre(at)nortel(dot)ca>
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] postgresql-6.3.2 question
Date: 1998-05-17 19:46:22
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.3.96.980517154525.12772B-100000@dragosani.lan2wan.com
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On Sun, 17 May 1998, Andy Lewis wrote:

> I'm not totall sure but, I wouldn't think that user postgres has enough system
> rights to install.

You should be root when doing the actual software installation to
/usr/local, but everything else should be done as the postgres user.

Brett W. McCoy
http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy/
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