hi all,
thanks for the good information and advise. i've
learned something from everyone's replies. i have
open office open and i'm keeping good notes.
i'm now reading up on how to create a role for my os
user so that the os user can have full privileges on
the db.
i think this won't be a problem.
so why am i posting, you ask? great question. ;-)
well, i dropped the "postgres" db in order to create a
"rails" db. i tried to do some stuff and i kept
getting the error that postgres didn't exist. then i
remembered that was likely because it was the default
db required to work with other dbs.
ooops!
i had created a postgres db earlier, so i thought
deleting postgres would only impact what i had
previously created (i think postgres already existed
in the distro, now that i look back).
anyway, i recreated postgres, but when i "su -
postgres"... i get the following error:
No directory, logging in with HOME=/
i think i must've deleted a directory when i deleted
postgres and it wasn't recreated when i recreated
postgres.
what can i do, if anything, to get back on track after
delting and recreating the postgres db? i'm running
simply mepis, which is based on debian.
as always, tia...
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