[plug] DebNewbie Q?

[sol]

Hi PLUGers,

I just wanted to say thankyou to Tony, Michael H, and Jeremy for the 
Postgresql tips. I took all your advice, read the online info under the 
"administrator's guide" at postgresql.org. I then decided to start 
fresh, so I removed the postgres packages and reinstalled them. This 
time I followed the online instructions carefully and checked that all 
the processes were up and running before trying to createuser (this time 
from su - postgres). It worked! At last I can get started!

Cheers,
And enjoy your weekend!

Sol



Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, sol wrote:
> 
> 
>> Afternoon PLUGers,
>> 
>> Following on some advice from one of the list gurus some time back I 
>> decided to teach myself PostgreSQL. So I got the book "PostgreSQL: 
>> Introduction and Concepts" by Bruce Momjian and installed Postgres and 
>> excitedly began my first lesson. However, I got stymied straight up when 
>> I tried to launch psql from the console by being told that I needed to 
>> set user ID to "sol" for pg_shadow. I'd no idea how to do this, but 
>> after a hunt through the man pages found suidregister (I thought that 
>> this was the tool for the job) and did this:
>> 
>> suidregister /var/lib/postgres/data/pg_shadow sol postgres 600
> 
> reverse this.
> 
> as root
> createuser -P sol
> answer yes to all the questions.
> 
> This will creat you a postgres account.  from there you should be pretty
> set to follow the book.
> 
> 
> Yours Tony.
> 
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