On 5/4/2012 7:02 PM, jeffmeyer wrote:
Hi all - apologies if this is posted elsewhere - I couldn't find anything
about it:
the postGIS2.0 README states:
To install PostGIS library and utilities, as postgres run::
make install
But, make install requires su privileges (in order to create certain
directories) and the default postgres user account doesn't have this. Do I
need to elevate postgres to su? Isn't that a security issue?
Currently, when I make install as postgres, I get the following error:
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/_inst.32562_': Permission
denied
make[1]: *** [install-liblwgeom] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/lib/postgresql/postgis-2.0.1SVN/liblwgeom'
make: *** [install] Error 1
Jeff,
Installation of system libraries requires sudo or root. This is the case
for all software. Installation is the root user's responsibility. Once
the software is installed it can be started and will run as the
appropriate user in this case postgres.
-Steve W
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