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Having problem with initdb on my Solaris 8 box

From
ph02116@yahoo.com (ph01803)
Date:
I am new to PostgreSQL. I downloaded PostgreSQL 7.1.3 and followed
instruction to ./configure, gmake, and gmake install. gmake told me
that I successfully made PostgreSQL and ready for installation. After
I installed, I could not get it started. I went back and did gmake
check. I got an error message which saved in initdb.log. Here it is:

   The program
       '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres'
   needed by initdb does not belong to PostgreSQL version 7.1.3, or
   there may be a configuration problem.

When I checked postgres --version, I got v7.1.3.

I am confussed. Can someone give me some hints?

Thanks!

Paul

Re: Having problem with initdb on my Solaris 8 box

From
steve@zeropps.uklinux.net (Steve)
Date:
On 11 Jan 2002 07:35:46 -0800, ph01803 wrote:

>   The program
>       '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres'
>   needed by initdb does not belong to PostgreSQL version 7.1.3, or
>   there may be a configuration problem.

Have you created the user 'postgres' on your system?
And have you done "chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data"?

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