Re: Help me

I had checked the directory:
/var/lib/pgsql (not postgres)
It has some files but I can't do with it. I thought I had a prolems when
install mandrake 9.0 and I installed it again but there is nothing to be
change.
When I start postgresql by the command:
/etc/init.d/postgresql start
then I type with user root:
createdb demo
Have a error message:
user "root" does not exist
What does this mean? please help me, thank you very much.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gerd Terlutter <gerd(at)MplusB(dot)de>
To: Tran Anh Tu <trantu(at)vnu(dot)edu(dot)vn>
Cc: pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:03:33 +0200
Subject: Re: [PHP] Help me

> Tran Anh Tu wrote:
> > Hi all!
>
> ...
> > But when I stop it and switch to user: postgres, and start it with
> > command: postmaster -i then it does not working because It don't know
> > where the database is placed. A error message:
> >
> > postmaster does not know where to find the database system data.
> > Please help me!
> tran(at)tux$su -
> password:xxx
> root#su postgres
> tux:/root$ whoami
> postgres
> tux:/root$ cd
> tux$pwd
> /var/lib/postgres
> tux$ls -al
> does this help?
>
> greetings,
> Gerd
>
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