Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 08:18:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Good <tomg@nrnet.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing and Running PostgreSQL Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990528080654.11167A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> In-Reply-To: <199905280156.UAA53656@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Thu, 27 May 1999, David Kelly wrote: > Thomas Good writes: > > Now can we get PG binaries online somewhere?! ;-) > > Thought I'd try it. This is how one makes a binary package out of a > port: > > % cd /ports/databases/postgresql/ > % make USE_TCL=yes package > ===> postgresql-6.4.2 may not be packaged: Requires pgsql uid. > % > > Apparently it blows up because the package system does not yet support > the creation/addition of new user id's. Or maybe there is some good > reason a package can not create a user account? David - what about a shell script that does the same thing? When I cp'd the binaries from my production box to my laptop I did this: 1) tar the /usr/local/pgsql dir tree as root 2) unpack the tarball 3) useradd postgres 4) chown -R postgres.(group) /usr/local/pgsql 5) update ld conf... 6) add env vars to /etc/profile 7) login as postgres, initdb 8) as postgres, fire up the server 9) createuser... If the binaries were available with a shell script or a brief doc it would be easy enough to setup. I do this with Slackware and PostgreSQL.org offers Solaris binaries... God knows I wish I had had binaries for my UnixWare box. That was an ordeal to get going. By comparison, FreeBSD was cake. Tom ---- North Richmond Community Mental Health Center Thomas Good Information Systems Coordinator E-Mail: tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 Empowered by PostgreSQL 6.3.2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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