Simon --
Thanks for all the help so far...please don't kill me...
For anyone else doing this exercise...I had to use the -R instead of -r on
Mandrake.
[root@pusher bin]# chown -R postgres /usr/local/pgsql/
[postgres@pusher pgsql]$ nohup postmaster > regress.log 2>&1 &
[1] 1443
[postgres@pusher pgsql]$ createuser
Connection to database 'template1' failed.
FATAL 1: SetUserId: user 'postgres' is not in 'pg_shadow'
createuser: database access failed.
[postgres@pusher pgsql]$ cd /usr/local/pgsql/data
[postgres@pusher data]$ ls -la
total 62
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8195 Aug 24 12:09 #pg_shadow#
drwxrwsr-x 3 postgres postgres 1024 Aug 24 12:09 ./
drwxrwsr-x 8 postgres postgres 1024 Aug 18 09:10 ../
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 4 Aug 12 16:12 PG_VERSION
drwx--S--- 4 postgres postgres 1024 Aug 17 11:27 base/
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Aug 17 11:27 pg_database
-r-------- 1 postgres postgres 3407 Aug 12 16:12 pg_geqo.sample
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 0 Aug 12 16:12 pg_group
-rw--w---- 1 postgres postgres 5191 Aug 12 17:05 pg_hba.conf
-rw--w---- 1 postgres postgres 5192 Aug 12 16:12 pg_hba.conf~
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Aug 18 11:00 pg_log
-rw-rw-rw- 1 postgres postgres 51 Aug 12 16:12 pg_pwd
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Aug 12 16:12 pg_shadow
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 Aug 18 11:00 pg_variable
Do you spot anything else wrong? I tried to emacs pg_shadow, but that is
one ugly files that looks compiled. I did see that powner resides in there.
Shawn
