Re: Help me

Hi,

This message you will get when you use the command as root.

login as the postgres user:

su - postgres

then start:

postmaster -D /var/pgsql/data -i >logfile 2>&1 &

regards,
Bastiaan

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 12:22, Tran Anh Tu wrote:

> Hi all!
> I have installed Mandr
> ake 9.0. and postgresql is installed automatically.
> When I start postgresql by the command:
> postmaster -i
> have a error message:
>
> The server must be started under an unprivileged user id to prevent
> a possible system security compromise. See the documentation for
> more information on how to properly start the server.
>
> With Mandrake 8.0, I do nothing to config postgresql. So what I can do to
> config it now? Please help me! thank you very much.
> *******************************************************
> Tran Anh Tu
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> Phone: 047680417-25 Email trantu(at)vnu(dot)edu(dot)vn
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>
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