On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 02:31, marco wrote:
> I cannot get postgresql to install :
>
> Here is the error message:
>
> Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/lib/postgres/data
> su - postgres -c cd /var/lib/postgres; . ./.bash_profile; LANG=C initdb
> --encoding UNICODE --pgdata /var/lib/postgres/data
> -su: initdb: command not found
...
>
> I played around with the .profile and .bash_profile in /var/lib/postgres
> which were both not exporting the PATH but this did not help.
~postgres/.bash_profile should contain:
. /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/postgresql/bin
PGDATA=${POSTGRES_DATA:-/var/lib/postgres/data}
PGLIB=/usr/lib/postgresql/lib
export PGLIB PGDATA
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