<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ok,<br><br>After installing F9 with the GUI version installer, I used "System", "Admininstration", "Add/Remove Software" to install postgresql-server and postgresql version 8.3.1. I then went to "System", "Administration", "Services" and enabled and started the service labelled "postgresqld". After "starting", I noticed that the "status" remained "unknown". In F8 and the previous versions of PostGreSQL this was working before.<br><br>So then, I figured that postgres programmers probably wanted to make things more "secure" and that I would have to do some typical "setup" by hand. The first instructions that I found in an article said to use "/sbin/chkconfig postgresql on" after logging in as
user "postgres". This I did and it gave me four "file exists" errors, which I expected to happen since the services GUI program had already done the same thing.<br><br>Then it said to use "/sbin/service postgresql start" while logged in as user postgres and when I did, it said "please initialize the database with "service postgresql initdb"". So I did that and I saw some stuff "fly by" on the command line and then the script crashed with a final line of "g database".<br><br>The same thing happened on two different machines on which I installed F9 and pg 8.3.1, so I don't think this is hardware related or F9 installation related.<br><br>I wish that there was some GUI tool I could install that would allow me to setup pg without any headaches.<br><br>Arthur<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Christopher Smith <x@xman.org><br>To: SGVLUG Discussion
List. <sgvlug@sgvlug.net><br>Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:05:58 PM<br>Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] PostgreSQL setup on Fedora 9<br><br>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Arthur Baldwin wrote:<br>> Can anyone point me to a good link for "how to" setup PostgreSQL on<br>> Fedora 9? I have tried following the directions for previous versions<br>> of Fedora and PG to no avail.<br><br>There's nothing special about the Fedora 9 config of PostgreSQL AFAIK.<br>The generic PostgreSQL docs should help. If you could describe the<br>symptoms and how you got there, perhaps I can help.<br><br>- --Chris<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)<br>Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org" target="_blank">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a><br><br>iD8DBQFILN32OagjPOywMBARAhGvAKDaMK2mIMg+4bCUgIIgSITq1ou6rACgqTeO<br>Hz5Lu9b0MAw7un9cNlnqRvk=<br>=MB4J<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br></div></div></div><br>
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