Surely I'm not the only one here who has tried to use the RPM installation, am I? Since I entered this message I have gone in via Webmin and created the users root and bacula and created a database called bacula. At that point the script to create tables ran, but Director still won't start.
I know it's a trivial issue that probably should be obvious, and I'm sure I'll feel really stupid after it's pointed out, but that's okay. Point it out! Van G. Armour Van Horn wrote: >I've got my bacula box setup running Fedora Core 5 using the >1.38.11-3.fc5.i386.rpms for bacula-posgresql, bacula-mtx, >bacula-gconsole, and bacula-client. I have posgresql, bacula-dir, >bacula-fd, and bacula-sd setup to run as services, but bacula-dir won't >start. > >When I do a "service bacula-dir start it returns (I'm typing this from >one window to another, so typos are possible here): > >Starting Bacula Director services: 01-Nov 22:46 bacula-dir: Fatal error: >Could not open Catalog "MyCatalog", database "bacula". >01-Nov 22:46 bacula-dir: Fatal error: postgresgl.c:168 Unable to connect >to PostgreSQL server. >Database=bacula User=bacula >It is probably not running or your password is incorrect. >01-Nov 22:46 bacula-dir ERROR TERMINATION >Please correct configuration file: /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf > >So I notice there is a "create_postgresql_database script. Sounds like a >good idea, but I get this: >psql: FATAL: role "root" does not exist >Creation of bacula database failes. > >Okay, let's try grant_bacula_privileges: >psql: FATAL: database "bacula" does not exist >Error creating privileges. > >Obviously there is some magic preliminary step I've overlooked in here >to setup PostgreSQL, but I'm no expert on PostgreSQL (or any other >database) and I haven't a clue where to start. > >Van > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Sign up now for Quotes of the Day, a handful of quotations on a theme delivered every morning. Enlightenment! Daily, for free! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For photography, web design, hosting, and maintenance, visit Van's home page: http://www.domainvanhorn.com/van/ ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
