Jep!
Thanks, It worked out for me.
And now how to congfigure database server as speedy as it could come? And
how to connct it with W2K odbc connection?
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Timo
"Lee Harr" <missive@frontiernet.net> kirjoitti viestiss�
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> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 11:20:34 +0300, Timo Lehtinen <timo@suorakanava.fi>
wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'am very new to linux and postgresql. I just intalled Redhat7.1. and
> > downloaded rpms and installed rpms. Now I'am stuck with startin the
server
> > itself. What do I have to do after I have installed rpms? I found doc
that
> > said I need to simply enter ../configure to configure server. What is
> > this command 'configure' where do I need to execute it?
> >
>
> ./configure
> would only be used if you were building the software from source.
> You would then follow up with
> make [or gmake...]
> make install
>
>
> With RPM it is a different story...
>
> It is possible the RPM installed a startup script to start the server
> automatically when the system boots. On my FreeBSD machine it is in
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
> but I am sure that Red Hat stores those sort of things somewhere else.
>
> If you cannot find the script, I suppose you could try rebooting and
> see what happens. But I would recommend finding your postgres
> executables and starting the server by hand. See if you have a
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin
> or try finding an executable file called
> postgres
>
> whereever you find that file, you should find one called
> initdb
> but again, not being familiar with RPM, that may have already happened.
> you could try
> man initdb
> man postgres
> man postmaster
>
>
>
>
