[GENERAL] Windows Download

2007-08-27 Thread John K Masters
I have setup a Postgres server on Debian Etch and successfully connected to it with various *nix clients but I now have to connect a WinXP client. On accessing the Postgres site I am directed to a download page, click on the appropriate link and get automatically directed to a University of Kent si

Re: [GENERAL] Linux distro

2007-08-01 Thread John K Masters
On 09:15 Thu 02 Aug , Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: > On 8/2/07, John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I love Slackware but have eventually gone back to running my servers on > > Debian stable. Most of the Debian derivatives base on unstable to get > > th

Re: [GENERAL] Linux distro

2007-08-01 Thread John K Masters
On 06:30 Thu 02 Aug , Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: > On 8/2/07, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrej, > Richard, > > > >How quickly people forget about the quiet distribution: Slackware. Ideal > > for servers, and great on desktops and portables, too, for those who know > > what

Re: [GENERAL] initdb

2007-06-19 Thread John K Masters
On 10:06 Tue 19 Jun , Jeffrey Webster wrote: >On 6/17/07, Andrej Ricnik-Bay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hm. Why not just edit your .bash_profile, or .bashrc? (I won't go into >the details of which to use) > >Add: >export PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data > >Add the

[GENERAL] initdb

2007-06-17 Thread John K Masters
I feel somewhat embarrassed to post this but I can't get past the first post with Postgresql. I have installed onto a Debian testing system, created a space for the database cluster on /usr/local/pgsql/data, changed owner to postgres and changed permissions to 0700. However, when I try `initdb -D