

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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Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:42:47 -0700 (PDT)
Eyinagho Newton <neyinagho@yahoo.com>
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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Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:48:25 -0700
"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Re: Installing PostgreSQL in a Unix Platform

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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Mon, 23 Aug 2004 03:45:55 -0700 (PDT)
Eyinagho Newton <neyinagho@yahoo.com>
Re: Installing PostgreSQL in a Unix Platform
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:
> 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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>>> 
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>>
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Re: Installing PostgreSQL in a Unix Platform