Re: Install question

From: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Mickey <mickey(at)mcnjeni(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Install question
Date: 2003-09-29 21:52:44
Message-ID: 1064872364.1309.19.camel@linda.lfix.co.uk
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On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 22:04, Mickey wrote:
> New install - Rh 7.3, PG 7.2.3
>
> On trying to start postgres with
>
> pg_ctrl start
>
> I get this:
>
> pg_ctl: no database directory or environment variable $PGDATA is specified
>
> I was instructed to add this:
>
> POSTGRESHOME=/usr/local/pgsql
> MANPATH=$POSTGRESHOME/man:$MANPATH
> PATH=$POSTGRESHOME/bin:$PATH
> PGDATA=$POSTGRESHOME/data
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$POSTGRESHOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH MANPATH PATH PGDATA
>
> To this file:
>
> /etc/profile
>
> Which I have done, and it has been saved ;)

Have you logged out and in since? Or are you using a setup where
/etc/profile is sourced into your environment? In many systems,
/etc/profile is sourced by a login shell, but that may not be the case
if you are using a GUI environment. You will need to make sure that it
is (see the bash manual page for an explanation of this).

To source it in the current session, do:

. /etc/profile

which will read the file and set those variables in your environment.

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