Re: installing without shell access - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Aras Angelo
Subject Re: installing without shell access
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Msg-id 5136d4130811101049m13c1b739n2a54c8b0d4b0dad4@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: installing without shell access  (Thomas Pundt <mlists@rp-online.de>)
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gmake install requires root privileges.
It wont install with regular httpd user (apache, nobody etc.) on a php-shell script or php system command functions.


On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Thomas Pundt <mlists@rp-online.de> wrote:
Scott Marlowe schrieb:

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Dana Holland
<dana.holland@navarrocollege.edu> wrote:
Is it at all possible to get pgsql installed on a system without access to a
shell?  A friend is wanting me to install a particular bulletin board system
on her website; however, her hosting plan only provides the MySQL database -
the bulletin board requires pgsql.  And her hosting plan has no ssh access.

So, is it possible to install the database with only ftp access to the
account?

most web languanges ala php allow you to execute arbitrary commands
(using back ticks in php) so theoretically she could probably do it.


That reminds me having seen something like a shell implemented in PHP:
google for php-shell. I've never used such a beast, though.

Ciao,
Thomas


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