Re: Starting Postgre

Jep!

Thanks, It worked out for me.

And now how to congfigure database server as speedy as it could come? And
how to connct it with W2K odbc connection?

--
Timo

"Lee Harr" <missive(at)frontiernet(dot)net> kirjoitti viestiss
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> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 11:20:34 +0300, Timo Lehtinen <timo(at)suorakanava(dot)fi>
wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'am very new to linux and postgresql. I just intalled Redhat7.1. and
> > downloaded rpms and installed rpms. Now I'am stuck with startin the
server
> > itself. What do I have to do after I have installed rpms? I found doc
that
> > said I need to simply enter ../configure to configure server. What is
> > this command 'configure' where do I need to execute it?
> >
>
> ./configure
> would only be used if you were building the software from source.
> You would then follow up with
> make [or gmake...]
> make install
>
>
> With RPM it is a different story...
>
> It is possible the RPM installed a startup script to start the server
> automatically when the system boots. On my FreeBSD machine it is in
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
> but I am sure that Red Hat stores those sort of things somewhere else.
>
> If you cannot find the script, I suppose you could try rebooting and
> see what happens. But I would recommend finding your postgres
> executables and starting the server by hand. See if you have a
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin
> or try finding an executable file called
> postgres
>
> whereever you find that file, you should find one called
> initdb
> but again, not being familiar with RPM, that may have already happened.
> you could try
> man initdb
> man postgres
> man postmaster
>
>
>
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