Обсуждение: Installing PostgreSQL in a Linux Environment
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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Hi > 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 Does this file /etc/init.d/postgresql.checkproc exist? Does the postmaster process show up if you type 'ps -A' in a console? If it does, PostgreSQL is installed and running. The checkproc command is probably only there to check whether PostgreSQL has started correctly. SuSE 8.0 is quite old, probably a newer version wouldn't be bad. You can also install the newest PostgreSQL version from source (http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors-ftp.html). Arthur
Dear Arthur, Thanks so much for response and help on my cry for help. I've tried the 'ps -a' you asked me to try and the result it gave was as follows: PID TTY TIME CMD ------------------------------ 1070 pts/1 00:00:00 su 1071 pts/1 00:00:00 bash 1076 pts/1 00:00:00 ps In addition to that, i also tried to use the caps form of the command, ie 'PS -A' and what i got was as follows: bash: PS: command not found When i tried another form of the command, ie 'ps -A' , i got a series of numbers just like the first result above. The numbers started from 1, 2, 3, etc up until the last set 1070, 1071, and 1076. They were also listed under PID, TTY, TIME,and CMD. What does this indicate? Its interesting to note that postgreSQL wasn't in any of the various words listed under CMD. I only found words like init, keventd, kapad, etc. As to your question of whether this file /etc/init.d/postgresql.checkproc exists, i found that it doesn't. Whilst i could navigate to the directory 'etc' using cd /etc, i could not do same for init.d although it was one of the files listed under 'etc' when you do an 'ls' command. Kindly help please. Newton Eyinagho __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Hi > Thanks so much for response and help on my cry for > help. I've tried the 'ps -a' you asked me to try and > the result it gave was as follows: > > PID TTY TIME CMD > ------------------------------ > 1070 pts/1 00:00:00 su > 1071 pts/1 00:00:00 bash > 1076 pts/1 00:00:00 ps 'ps -a ' isn't worth much, it only gives the processes of the current terminal you're working on. > In addition to that, i also tried to use the caps form > of the command, ie 'PS -A' and what i got was as > follows: > > bash: PS: command not found It's 'ps -A' not 'PS -A'. ;) This should give you _all_ processes (depending a bit on your version of ps, but most of those shipped with current distros are like that. Else have a look at 'man ps'). > When i tried another form of the command, ie 'ps -A' , > i got a series of numbers just like the first result > above. The numbers started from 1, 2, 3, etc up until > the last set 1070, 1071, and 1076. They were also > listed under PID, TTY, TIME,and CMD. > > What does this indicate? Its interesting to note that > postgreSQL wasn't in any of the various words listed > under CMD. I only found words like init, keventd, > kapad, etc. The process PostgreSQL runs under is called 'postmaster'. Have a look for that. You could also try 'ps -A|grep postmaster' which filters out only the lines with 'postmaster' in it. > As to your question of whether this file > /etc/init.d/postgresql.checkproc exists, i found that > it doesn't. Whilst i could navigate to the directory > 'etc' using cd /etc, i could not do same for init.d > although it was one of the files listed under 'etc' > when you do an 'ls' command. Uhm, if you type 'cd /etc/init.d/' without the '.d' or anything missing, this should definitely work. As your problems are more related to linux than to PostgreSQL I'd recommend you to subscribe to a linux mailing list fitting the distribution you're using. Arthur P.S: Try to keep your messages free from superfluous empty lines.
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 10:38:26AM -0700, 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 IIRC SuSE 8.0 requires you to use the command rcpostgresql as root when you have just installed postgresql. It will do the initdb and other things necessary to get postgresql running. #which checkproc /sbin/checkproc You may have to log in as root to run /etc/init.d/postgresql start, or even configure it in the SysV-Init Editor HTH - Martin -