Re: New at this. Commissioning for the first time:

sa92003(at)yahoo(dot)com (Rob) wrote in message news:<6b5b067f(dot)0401112211(dot)2b926246(at)posting(dot)google(dot)com>...
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm brand new at this, and am trying to set up PostgreSQL for the very
> first time. It looks like my installation of RH9 a few weeks ago has
> installed the database proper, and now all I need to do is create a
> few files and commission the application so that I can see "template1"
> and proceed from there.
>
> I had set up the directory...
> /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> and then typed...
> postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> and the shell reply is...
> FATAL: data directory /usr/local/pgsql/data has group or world
> access;
> permissions should be u=rwx (0700)
>
> Being new at Un*x as well, I only know a fair amount about how to
> change permissions. Emacs says the directory currently has these
> permissions on the directory:
> drwxr-xr-x
>
> What instructions should I issue in order to meet the requirement?
> chmod [what?]
>
> Thank you for any information that you can provide.

Rob,
Unix user running the postmaster needs to own /usr/local/pgsql/data
directory.
Do the following : ( i assume that you have postgres unix user and
data directory exists)
1. chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data
2. su postgres
3. postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
4. pg_ctl status

Essentially make postgres user the owner of data directory and then
run postmaster as postgres.