You should really use the port. it has a working startup script, and it creates a pgsql/.profile for you. Using su -m is more error prone IMHO. It will export locales and such, that you really don't want to export to postmaster. /Palle Vivek Khera wrote: > > I installed the sample startup script for postgres for FreeBSD, but it > reports the following error upon running: > > # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgres.sh start > pg_ctl: no database directory or environment variable $PGDATA is specified > Try 'pg_ctl --help' for more information. > > I see clearly that PGDATA is set and exported. I'm suspecting that > the "su -l" causes the environment to disappear. My guess is that > whomever wrote this script has PGDATA set in the ~/.profile (or > equivalent) in the postgres user's home directory. > > Thus, it is pointless to set PGDATA in the script. Setting and > exporting PGDATA in the ~/.profile file lets postgres start as > expected. > > The commentary says to copy the file to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql > but this is not useful; the file must in '.sh' and be executable or > FreeBSD will ignore it on boot. > > Also, the following line in the start action of the sript is useful: > > /sbin/ldconfig -m $prefix/lib > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. > Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 > AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl -- Partitur Informationsteknik AB Wenner-Gren Center +46 8 566 280 02 113 46 Stockholm +46 70 785 86 02 Sweden [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
