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Re: Postgres



just for kicks - try "su - postgres" - seems to work for me
Glenn
On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 10:25, Christoph Bühring wrote:
> Hi,
> I´ve got following Problem:
> 
> 	initdb: cannot be run as root
> 	Please log in (using, e.g., "su") as the (unprivileged) user that will
> 	own the server process.
> 	
>   I´m using an unstable Debian System. The error appears with postgres- 
> /stable/unstable and testing Versions.
>   The user postgres exits. After "su postgres" initdb return the same error 
> but pg_id returns the correct postgres id.
>   What´s  wrong?
> 
>   thanks
> 
>   Chris.
> 



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