Tom Lane wrote:
If the Fedora 5 RPMs won't install on your FC4 machine, grab the FC5 SRPM and do a quick rpmbuild --rebuild to make custom RPMs for your environment.
After about 5 minutes of compiling I get this: ====== pg_regress: initdb failed Examine ./log/initdb.log for the reason. make: *** [check] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.67109 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.67109 (%build) ====== /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/postgresql-8.1.4/ src/test/regress/log/initdb.log Running in noclean mode. Mistakes will not be cleaned up. initdb: cannot be run as root Please log in (using, e.g., "su") as the (unprivileged) user that will own the server process. -- Bryan White, ArcaMax Publishing Inc.