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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