Upi Weston wrote: > Ah well I have made some progress since this previous posting. Still > no answers on the cause though. > > I downloaded 'Administration Tools' from the apple website and started > the 'Workgroup Manager.app'. > This allowed me to change the settings for the 'postgres' user. I had > to change the settings that gave 'postgres' a shell and a home > directory. > I could then perform 'sudo -u postgresql /sw2/bin/initdb /sw2/var/ > postgresql-8.2/data' to create a new database. > and 'sudo -u postgesql /sw2/bin/pgsql.sh-8.2 start' to start up the > database. > > I haven't worked out yet if this will start up as a daemon on os > restart. > > Do "daemonic enable postgresql82". > The other thing is that I have a sneaky suspicion that the install > process might have done an 'initdb' somewhere Quoting from the package description file:
DescUsage: << The package runs initdb on installation as the user 'postgres'. So that sounds right. > but I'm stuffed if I can > find it. > I looked for the PG_VERSION file using mdfind but to no avail. > > The saga continues > > On 04/03/2008, at 12:39 PM, Upi Weston wrote: > > Whatever got created ought to be under /sw ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
