On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 11:42:15AM -0400, rb wrote:
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> dirname: too many arguments
> Try `dirname --help' for more information.
> postgresql failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1
This probably has something to do with your timezone. Check to see if
you've got that
jramon wrote:
>I have install postgresql-6.5 in a Debian 2.2.17 :
>
>- /etc/rc2.d/S20postgresql start up postmaster
>- A system user, with appropiate permission, have run initdb OK
>
>When this user try to run createdb, system say:
>
>"Could not execv /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/creat
El Lun 04 Jun 2001 16:53, escribiste:
> El Lun 04 Jun 2001 16:30, escribiste:
> > jramon wrote:
> > >I have install postgresql-6.5 in a Debian 2.2.17 :
> > >
> > >- /etc/rc2.d/S20postgresql start up postmaster
> > >- A system user, with appropiate permission, have run initdb OK
> > >
> >
On 28-Oct-99 Oliver Elphick wrote:
> The Debian preinst script checks for the existence of postgres in
> /etc/passwd
> and creates it if it does not exist. If it does exist, it uses the home
> directory named in /etc/passwd as the POSTGRES_HOME directory.
>
> If you have an existing installation
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I removed that user and it seems that did the trick :)
I had postgresql running in potato, utilizing the 'postgres' user. I would be
skeptical of any fix that involved nuking that user and not putting it back at
some point. Is it back in your passwd file? Als
Pollywog wrote:
>I have been unable to install postgresql and I did a search for "postgresql"
>on Google's Linux search engine and I found a HOWTO which gave a clue about
>the problem. I thought I should remove the user "postgres" from my
>/etc/passwd because the HOWTO indicated that the i
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