Re: installation problem

From: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: virka prasetia <virka(at)kmrg(dot)lib(dot)itb(dot)ac(dot)id>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: installation problem
Date: 2002-04-09 06:49:58
Message-ID: web-1232236@davinci.ethosmedia.com
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Virka,

> i'm having a trouble when installing the postgresql 7.2 on FreeBSD
> 4.2.

Let me caution you that I am an Linux geek, so YMMV.

> at the installation guide i must do the following:
>
> ./configure
> gmake
> su
> gmake install
> adduser postgres
> mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data
> chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
> su - postgres
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data >logfile
> 2>&1 &

Hmmm. What happens when you try a straight:
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
(I've added the -i because you'll want it later)
This should feed back any problems that postgres is having starting up
to the terminal.

-Josh

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