Regarding Postgres installation and administration on linux suse 9.0

On Dec 10, 2004, at 4:26 AM, Vikas Kumawat wrote:

 Dear Sir /Madam,

 We are working on Linux suse 9.0 and we have installed Postgres 7.3
through yast with the privileges of  "root" user. But we are not able
to start / configure the postgres database, Kindly help us in
configuring and starting the same database and how can we create
database and use it. We will be very thankful to you prompt help.

Thanks & Regards
Vikas Kumawat

The postgres users should own the data directory, but otherwise should
not have administrative privileges. What is the specific error you are
getting?

Right, the postgres server will refuse to run if the controlling user
is root. You need to reconfigure with a different user account.

On Dec 11, 2004, at 2:01 PM, Timothy Perrigo wrote:

On Dec 10, 2004, at 4:26 AM, Vikas Kumawat wrote:

 Dear Sir /Madam,

 We are working on Linux suse 9.0 and we have installed Postgres 7.3
through yast with the privileges of  "root" user. But we are not able
to start / configure the postgres database, Kindly help us in
configuring and starting the same database and how can we create
database and use it. We will be very thankful to you prompt help.

Thanks & Regards
Vikas Kumawat

The postgres users should own the data directory, but otherwise should
not have administrative privileges. What is the specific error you
are getting?

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