stan <st...@panix.com> writes: > I have installed PostgreSQL via the ports on a new 7.1 machine. I am trying > to set it up. > > I found: > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/postgresql.php > > Whic says to run: > > su -l pgsql -c initdb > > But that gives me the following error message: > > initdb: no data directory specified > You must identify the directory where the data for this database system > will reside. Do this with either the invocation option -D or the > environment variable PGDATA. > > But when I try: > > # su -l pgsql -c initdb -D /usr/local/postgres > > I get: > > Illegal option -D > > What am I doing wrong?
You haven't read a post-install message. ;-) You may read it now: ----- $ less /usr/ports/databases/postgresql83-server/files/pkg-message-server.in ----- WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
