Re: postgresql install problem solved
Pollywog wrote:
>I have been unable to install postgresql and I did a search for "postgresql"
>on Google's Linux search engine and I found a HOWTO which gave a clue about
>the problem. I thought I should remove the user "postgres" from my
>/etc/passwd because the HOWTO indicated that the installation should not fin
>d
>a user "postgres" already in the password file.
>
>I removed that user and it seems that did the trick :)
>The HOWTO is for RPM versions but I thought this would apply to Debian
>packages also.
The Debian preinst script checks for the existence of postgres in /etc/passwd
and creates it if it does not exist. If it does exist, it uses the home
directory named in /etc/passwd as the POSTGRES_HOME directory.
If you have an existing installation, you should not remove the user from
/etc/passwd.
If you are _newly_ installing postgresql 6.5.2 or later, there may be a
problem because base-passwd still makes the home directory /var/postgres
whereas it should now be /var/lib/postgres. Editing /etc/passwd to correct
this should be sufficient.
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