Hello, I need to initialize the db as the root and start the database server. In order to accomplish this, I modified the initdb.c source file of pgsql package and tried to compile it. Eventhough the build was successful, I couldn't see the root user able to execute initdb executable generated by the build. I wanted to know if there is any other procedure for building the postgresql procedure?
Thanks Shreesha. P.S Below is the changes done in initdb.c (shown in bold letters below) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- static char * get_id(void) { #ifndef WIN32 struct passwd *pw; // if (geteuid() == 0) /* 0 is root's uid */ */* {* * fprintf(stderr,* * _("%s: cannot be run as root\n"* * "Please log in (using, e.g., \"su\") as the "* * "(unprivileged) user that will\n"* * "own the server process.\n"),* * progname);* * exit(1);* * }* **/* ... }