Re: [ADMIN] postgresql-6.3.2 question

From: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)lan2wan(dot)com>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Andy Lewis <alewis(at)mpsi(dot)net>, 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 20:24:03
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.3.96.980517162015.12772E-100000@dragosani.lan2wan.com
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On Sun, 17 May 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> Why? Once you've added the postgres user, with his home
> directory, the postgres users himself should be able to do the complete
> install...

Except for setting up the libraries and letting ldconfig know where they
are. Actually, I had to become root also to create the install
directories under /usr/local, and then change their ownership to my
postgres user, since that user doesn't have the rights to create
directories under /usr/local.

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