On Wednesday 31 December 2008 06:32:58 Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Andrew Gould
<andrewlylego...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:06 AM, stan <st...@panix.com> wrote:
> > > I have installed PostgreSQL via the ports on a new 7.1 machine. I am
> >
> > trying
> >
> > > to set it up.
> > >
> > > I found:
> > >
> > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/postgresql.php
> > >
> > > Whic says to run:
> > >
> > > su -l pgsql -c initdb
> > >
> > > But that gives me the following error message:
> > >
> > > initdb: no data directory specified
> > > You must identify the directory where the data for this database system
> > > will reside. Do this with either the invocation option -D or the
> > > environment variable PGDATA.
>
> Go into the port directory for postgresql71 and so "make deinstall". After
> that, do
>
> script -a ~/PGSQL-INSTALL.txt make install clean
>
> Once that is done, go ito the ~/PGSQL-INSTALL.txt and read the lines
> towards the bottom. Those are sometimes calles Post-install message. They
> tell you exactly what to do on FreeBSD.
Erm, that's kind of a round-about way to accomplish:
cat /usr/local/share/doc/postgresql/README-server
or:
cat /var/db/pkg/postgresql-server*/+DISPLAY
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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