[GENERAL] Windows Download

2007-08-27 Thread John K Masters
I have setup a Postgres server on Debian Etch and successfully connected to it with various *nix clients but I now have to connect a WinXP client. On accessing the Postgres site I am directed to a download page, click on the appropriate link and get automatically directed to a University of Kent

Re: [GENERAL] Linux distro

2007-08-01 Thread John K Masters
On 06:30 Thu 02 Aug , Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: On 8/2/07, Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrej, Richard, How quickly people forget about the quiet distribution: Slackware. Ideal for servers, and great on desktops and portables, too, for those who know what they're

Re: [GENERAL] Linux distro

2007-08-01 Thread John K Masters
On 09:15 Thu 02 Aug , Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: On 8/2/07, John K Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love Slackware but have eventually gone back to running my servers on Debian stable. Most of the Debian derivatives base on unstable to get the latest version of things but stable

Re: [GENERAL] initdb

2007-06-19 Thread John K Masters
On 10:06 Tue 19 Jun , Jeffrey Webster wrote: On 6/17/07, Andrej Ricnik-Bay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm. Why not just edit your .bash_profile, or .bashrc? (I won't go into the details of which to use) Add: export PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data Add the following

[GENERAL] initdb

2007-06-17 Thread John K Masters
I feel somewhat embarrassed to post this but I can't get past the first post with Postgresql. I have installed onto a Debian testing system, created a space for the database cluster on /usr/local/pgsql/data, changed owner to postgres and changed permissions to 0700. However, when I try `initdb -D