On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 22:53, Jean Fleurant (root) wrote:
> I'd like to use postgres database to run a buletin board called phpBB2.
> 
> I'm pretty new in linux and I've spent almost 2 days trying to start the 
> postgrea database.
> 
> In the documentation that come in the installation, it is always 
> specified to run "postmaster -D /database_path/" but I don't know what 
> is the database path.
> 
> Where should I start and is there documentation applicable to the 
> version that come with RedHat 8.
> 
> Please help me.

if you installed from rpms then all you should have to do is 

service postgres start

the startup scripts on 7.3 will init the db and every thing if it needs
to be done.  All the config and data will be in /var/lib/pgsql unless
they changed it for 8.0

Bret



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