Ummm .... time to get a 'Unix in 21 days' book, because what you're relating indicates you are battling with some beginner basics:
Try:
$ cd /usr/local
or:
$ cd /usr
$ cd local
not:
$ cd /usr
$ cd /localAnd you can't execute a program in the current directory (like DOS) unless you explicitly have '.' in your $PATH. It would have executed if you'd entered:
$ ./pg_ctl
... but I STRONGLY suggest that, until you understand why, you do not continue with what you're doing, but rather, learn the Unix basics first.
Eyinagho Newton wrote:
Dear Drake,
Thanks for your response and suggestions on what i should do to solve the above problem.
I have tried it and here are the results i had:
doing a cd /usr from the command line took me into
usr directory. However when i tried to do another cd /local from the above resulting command line, i
got the following error:
bash: cd: /local: no such file or directory.
I later tried to change directory again to 'bin' and therein i found 'pg_ctl' . However, when i tried to click on it, i got a display message with the words 'couldn't find the program "pg_ctl" . Again, i tried to enter shell command as a superuser, and through it executed the following shell command cd /usr and then cd /bin. When in the bin directory, i did an 'ls' command but couldn't find pg_ctl. I suspect that it truely wasn't installed.
What should i do next please?
Cheers,
Newton Eyinagho
--- "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
If you are compiling from source then the postgresql
startup script does not get installed.
You can use pg_ctl in /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl to
start postgresql. Alternatively you
can install the startup script from the contrib
directory startscripts/linux
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
Eyinagho Newton wrote:
It has been impossible to install PostgreSQL, an
open
source software, from my SUSE 8.0 . Although it
tells
you its been installed, each time i try to start it using SysV-Init Editor, i get the following
message:
<start>starting</start><cmd>/etc/init.d/postgresql</cmd>""<br/>
starting postgreSQL /etc/init.d/postgresql.checkproc:command not found ....done
What exactly am i doing wrong? Or better still,
what
haven't i done yet? Please help me
Newton Eyinagho
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!
http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
---------------------------(end of
broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please
send an appropriate
subscribe-nomail command to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your
message can get through to the mailing list
cleanly
-- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-667-4564 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.commandprompt.com PostgreSQL Replicator -- production quality replication for PostgreSQL
_______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush
---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
