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Brand New User (I hope)

From
phil
Date:
Hello,

I've just purchased SuSE 9.1 Professional which uses the YaST package manager
to install software and was wondering if anyone has successfully installed
Postgresql 7.4.2-31 on a Pentium based machine. I installed all of the
postgresql packages and simply ended up with a "server not found" message
when I typed: createdb mydata.  I've never asked a user group for help before
so I'm not sure how to go about this.......

Thank-you,
Phil

Re: Brand New User (I hope)

From
brew@theMode.com
Date:
Phil......

> I've never asked a user group for help before so I'm not sure how to go
> about this.......

You're doing fine.

> I've just purchased SuSE 9.1 Professional which uses the YaST package
> manager to install software and was wondering if anyone has successfully
> installed Postgresql 7.4.2-31 on a Pentium based machine. I installed
> all of the postgresql packages and simply ended up with a "server not
> found" message

First step is to see if the server is running.  I don't know about SuSE,
there is probably something in YaST to check what processes are running.
The common command line way to check in linux is

ps aux

which gives you a list of all running processes.  There should be a couple
there owned by postgres, probably, named postmaster or postgres.  If not
you have to figure out how to start them on startup.

A YaST user can probably help you better, but this should get you pointed
in the right direction.

brew

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Re: Brand New User (I hope)

From
"Joe Erickson"
Date:
You'll want to go into YaST to the System tab (the tabs on the side) and enter Runlevel Manager.  In the list, scroll
topostgresql and Enable it.  This will start the server and set PostgreSQL to start when the machine starts up. 

I'm doing quite a bit with PostgreSQL on SuSE, so if you have any other questions, you can email me.

---

Joe Erickson



-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of phil
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 5:26 PM
To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: [NOVICE] Brand New User (I hope)


Hello,

I've just purchased SuSE 9.1 Professional which uses the YaST package manager
to install software and was wondering if anyone has successfully installed
Postgresql 7.4.2-31 on a Pentium based machine. I installed all of the
postgresql packages and simply ended up with a "server not found" message
when I typed: createdb mydata.  I've never asked a user group for help before
so I'm not sure how to go about this.......

Thank-you,
Phil

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