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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