Re: problem with initlocation - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: problem with initlocation
Date
Msg-id 1157040174.10490.53.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to problem with initlocation  ("Josef J. Micka" <postgres@maylo.cz>)
Responses Re: problem with initlocation  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
List pgsql-admin
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 10:05, Josef J. Micka wrote:
> i want to make database in another place and i'm unable to use
> initlocation, and i don't know, what i'm doing wrong.
>
> this is what i do, and i think it's correct.
>
> www:/home/db/postgres$ su postgres
> postgres@www:/home/db/postgres$ ls -l
> total 12
> drwx------  6 postgres postgres 4096 Aug 31 14:59 data
> drwxr-xr-x  2 postgres postgres 4096 Aug 31 14:19 data-web
> drwx------  3 postgres postgres 4096 Oct 15  2004 dumpall
> postgres@www:/home/db/postgres$ /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initlocation
> /home/db/postgres/data-web/
> initlocation: cannot be run as root

What does the command whoami say right before you would run the
initlocation?

pgsql-admin by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: problem with initlocation
Next
From: "Jeffrey J. Early"
Date:
Subject: Re: Embedded App and User Authentication