On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 22:23 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:09:15 +0200, Jarkko Elfving <jarelf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi again... > > > > I tried to solve my PostgreSQL cluster problem like Michael Fuhr and > > Lonni Friedman helps me, but I didn't get it work. So I figured out that > > if I do an fresh installation and removed the PostgreSQL completely > > (even those JDBC and PL -drivers - everything) and be sure that it is > > completely removed. Then I installed it again with rpm -Uhv command and > > start to proceed like the manuals tells me, but now I'm in dead-end: > > initdb fails because postgres program was not found. How this could be > > happened? I did not removed the postgres user because I thought that is > > not needed to do. Initdb returns following fail: > > > > # su postgres > > bash-3.00$ initdb -D=/var/lib/pgsql/data/ > > fgets failure: Success > > The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the > > same directory as "/usr/bin/initdb". > > Check your installation. > > > > I did check that file postgres really is in /usr/bin -folder. > > > > How should I proceed now? > > Are you using the RPMs? If so, then starting postgresql with > /etc/init.d/postgresql for the first time will run initdb for you. > Yes. I'm using the RPM's and yes I'd used /etc/init.d/postgresql but it fails with errors: # /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start Initializing database: [FAILED] Starting postgresql service: [FAILED] I did the folder /var/lib/pgsql as documets tells me to do and give rights to postgres as user and a group (hmm... I don't know how say this properly, so I paste the command what I was used: mkdir /var/lib/pgsql chown postgres:postgres /var/lib/pgsql /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start) What I'm doing wrong? -- Jarkko Elfving <jarelf@xxxxxxxxxx> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly