just for kicks - try "su - postgres" - seems to work for me Glenn On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 10:25, Christoph Bühring wrote: > Hi, > I´ve got following Problem: > > initdb: cannot be run as root > Please log in (using, e.g., "su") as the (unprivileged) user that will > own the server process. > > I´m using an unstable Debian System. The error appears with postgres- > /stable/unstable and testing Versions. > The user postgres exits. After "su postgres" initdb return the same error > but pg_id returns the correct postgres id. > What´s wrong? > > thanks > > Chris. >
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