Installing PostgreSQL in a Unix Platform

Hello,

If you are compiling from source then the postgresql startup script does
not get installed.
You can use pg_ctl in /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl to start postgresql.
Alternatively you
can install the startup script from the contrib directory startscripts/linux

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

Eyinagho Newton wrote:

It has been impossible to install PostgreSQL, an open
source software, from my SUSE 8.0 . Although it tells
you its been installed, each time i try to start it
using SysV-Init Editor, i get the following message:

<start>starting</start><cmd>/etc/init.d/postgresql</cmd>""<br/>
starting postgreSQL
/etc/init.d/postgresql.checkproc:command not found
....done

What exactly am i doing wrong? Or better still, what
haven't i done yet? Please help me

Newton Eyinagho

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Dear Drake,

Thanks for your response and suggestions on what i
should do to solve the above problem.

I have tried it and here are the results i had:

doing a cd /usr from the command line took me into
usr directory. However when i tried to do another
cd /local from the above resulting command line, i
got the following error:

bash: cd: /local: no such file or directory.

I later tried to change directory again to 'bin' and
therein i found 'pg_ctl' . However, when i tried to
click on it, i got a display message with the words
'couldn't find the program "pg_ctl" . Again, i tried
to enter shell command as a superuser, and through it
executed the following shell command cd /usr and then
cd /bin. When in the bin directory, i did an 'ls'
command but couldn't find pg_ctl. I suspect that it
truely wasn't installed.

What should i do next please?

Cheers,

Newton Eyinagho

--- "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:

Hello,

If you are compiling from source then the postgresql
startup script does
not get installed.
You can use pg_ctl in /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl to
start postgresql.
Alternatively you
can install the startup script from the contrib
directory startscripts/linux

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

Eyinagho Newton wrote:

It has been impossible to install PostgreSQL, an

open

source software, from my SUSE 8.0 . Although it

tells

you its been installed, each time i try to start it
using SysV-Init Editor, i get the following

message:

<start>starting</start><cmd>/etc/init.d/postgresql</cmd>""<br/>

starting postgreSQL
/etc/init.d/postgresql.checkproc:command not found
....done

What exactly am i doing wrong? Or better still,

what

haven't i done yet? Please help me

Newton Eyinagho

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Ummm .... time to get a 'Unix in 21 days' book,
because what you're relating indicates you are battling with
some beginner basics:

Try:
$ cd /usr/local

or:
$ cd /usr
$ cd local
not:
$ cd /usr
$ cd /local

And you can't execute a program in the current directory
(like DOS) unless you explicitly have '.' in your $PATH.
It would have executed if you'd entered:

$ ./pg_ctl

... but I STRONGLY suggest that, until you understand
why, you do not continue with what you're doing, but
rather, learn the Unix basics first.

Eyinagho Newton wrote: