Thread: Installing PostgreSQL in a Unix Platform
It has been impossible to install PostgreSQL, an open
source software, from my SUSE 8.0 . Although it tells
you its been installed, each time i try to start it
using SysV-Init Editor, i get the following message:
<start>starting</start><cmd>/etc/init.d/postgresql</cmd>""<br/>
starting postgreSQL
/etc/init.d/postgresql.checkproc:command not found
....done
What exactly am i doing wrong? Or better still, what
haven't i done yet? Please help me
Newton Eyinagho
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Hello, If you are compiling from source then the postgresql startup script does not get installed. You can use pg_ctl in /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl to start postgresql. Alternatively you can install the startup script from the contrib directory startscripts/linux Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Eyinagho Newton wrote: >It has been impossible to install PostgreSQL, an open >source software, from my SUSE 8.0 . Although it tells >you its been installed, each time i try to start it >using SysV-Init Editor, i get the following message: > ><start>starting</start><cmd>/etc/init.d/postgresql</cmd>""<br/> >starting postgreSQL >/etc/init.d/postgresql.checkproc:command not found >....done > >What exactly am i doing wrong? Or better still, what >haven't i done yet? Please help me > >Newton Eyinagho > > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! >http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > > -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-667-4564 - jd@commandprompt.com - http://www.commandprompt.com PostgreSQL Replicator -- production quality replication for PostgreSQL
Dear Drake, Thanks for your response and suggestions on what i should do to solve the above problem. I have tried it and here are the results i had: doing a cd /usr from the command line took me into usr directory. However when i tried to do another cd /local from the above resulting command line, i got the following error: bash: cd: /local: no such file or directory. I later tried to change directory again to 'bin' and therein i found 'pg_ctl' . However, when i tried to click on it, i got a display message with the words 'couldn't find the program "pg_ctl" . Again, i tried to enter shell command as a superuser, and through it executed the following shell command cd /usr and then cd /bin. When in the bin directory, i did an 'ls' command but couldn't find pg_ctl. I suspect that it truely wasn't installed. What should i do next please? Cheers, Newton Eyinagho --- "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > Hello, > > If you are compiling from source then the postgresql > startup script does > not get installed. > You can use pg_ctl in /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl to > start postgresql. > Alternatively you > can install the startup script from the contrib > directory startscripts/linux > > Sincerely, > > Joshua D. Drake > > Eyinagho Newton wrote: > > >It has been impossible to install PostgreSQL, an > open > >source software, from my SUSE 8.0 . Although it > tells > >you its been installed, each time i try to start it > >using SysV-Init Editor, i get the following > message: > > > ><start>starting</start><cmd>/etc/init.d/postgresql</cmd>""<br/> > >starting postgreSQL > >/etc/init.d/postgresql.checkproc:command not found > >....done > > > >What exactly am i doing wrong? Or better still, > what > >haven't i done yet? Please help me > > > >Newton Eyinagho > > > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > >http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > >---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > >TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please > send an appropriate > > subscribe-nomail command to > majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > > message can get through to the mailing list > cleanly > > > > > > > -- > Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - > S/ODBC and S/JDBC > Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and > dedicated hosting. > +1-503-667-4564 - jd@commandprompt.com - > http://www.commandprompt.com > PostgreSQL Replicator -- production quality > replication for PostgreSQL > > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush
Ummm .... time to get a 'Unix in 21 days' book, because what you're relating indicates you are battling with some beginner basics: Try: $ cd /usr/local or:$ cd /usr$ cd local not:$ cd /usr$ cd /local And you can't execute a program in the current directory (like DOS) unless you explicitly have '.' in your $PATH. It would have executed if you'd entered: $ ./pg_ctl ... but I STRONGLY suggest that, until you understand why, you do not continue with what you're doing, but rather, learn the Unix basics first. Eyinagho Newton wrote: > Dear Drake, > > Thanks for your response and suggestions on what i > should do to solve the above problem. > > I have tried it and here are the results i had: > > doing a cd /usr from the command line took me into > usr directory. However when i tried to do another > cd /local from the above resulting command line, i > got the following error: > > bash: cd: /local: no such file or directory. > > I later tried to change directory again to 'bin' and > therein i found 'pg_ctl' . However, when i tried to > click on it, i got a display message with the words > 'couldn't find the program "pg_ctl" . Again, i tried > to enter shell command as a superuser, and through it > executed the following shell command cd /usr and then > cd /bin. When in the bin directory, i did an 'ls' > command but couldn't find pg_ctl. I suspect that it > truely wasn't installed. > > What should i do next please? > > > Cheers, > > Newton Eyinagho > > > > > > > --- "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > > >>Hello, >> >>If you are compiling from source then the postgresql >>startup script does >>not get installed. >>You can use pg_ctl in /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl to >>start postgresql. >>Alternatively you >>can install the startup script from the contrib >>directory startscripts/linux >> >>Sincerely, >> >>Joshua D. Drake >> >>Eyinagho Newton wrote: >> >> >>>It has been impossible to install PostgreSQL, an >> >>open >> >>>source software, from my SUSE 8.0 . Although it >> >>tells >> >>>you its been installed, each time i try to start it >>>using SysV-Init Editor, i get the following >> >>message: >> >><start>starting</start><cmd>/etc/init.d/postgresql</cmd>""<br/> >> >>>starting postgreSQL >>>/etc/init.d/postgresql.checkproc:command not found >>>....done >>> >>>What exactly am i doing wrong? Or better still, >> >>what >> >>>haven't i done yet? Please help me >>> >>>Newton Eyinagho >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>__________________________________ >>>Do you Yahoo!? >>>New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! >>>http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail >>> >>>---------------------------(end of >> >>broadcast)--------------------------- >> >>>TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please >> >>send an appropriate >> >>> subscribe-nomail command to >> >>majordomo@postgresql.org so that your >> >>> message can get through to the mailing list >> >>cleanly >> >>> >>> >> >> >>-- >>Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - >>S/ODBC and S/JDBC >>Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and >>dedicated hosting. >>+1-503-667-4564 - jd@commandprompt.com - >>http://www.commandprompt.com >>PostgreSQL Replicator -- production quality >>replication for PostgreSQL >> >> > > > > > > _______________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org) >