Re: Use of Postgres in RH 7.2

["Daniel F. Montagnese" <dmontagnese mutoh com>]

blkline attglobal net wrote:

> "Daniel F. Montagnese" wrote:
> >
> > I just did it for the first time last night, but  am not quite an expert
> > yet.  As root, type 'initdb'.  Make sure there is a postgres user.  As
> > postgres, type 'pg_ctl -D /var//lib/pgsql/data -o "-i" '
> > to start the postmaster as a daemon on an iternet domain tcp socket.  As
> > postgres, type  'createdb db_name'.  To connect to the new data base
> > named 'db_name', type 'psql db_name'.
> > Type '\?' to see the psql commands.  Type '\h' to see the available sql
> > commands.
>
> Don't go to all that trouble.  When you (as root) type:
>
> /sbin/service postgresql start
>
> the first time the scripts will automatically take care of the
> initdb.
> You need to edit the config files:
>
> /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf and
> /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
>
> to enable TCP/IP connections and set the level of security for the
> connection.
>
> Barry
>
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Barry:

Thanks for the great tips.

Daniel F. Montagnese