[ome-users] Further questions about broken server

[Sean Burke]

Try:
su
su postgres

You don't need a password if you do it as root.

-Sean

Glenn Murray wrote:
> Hi Sean,
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply.  It seems something that the Mac install 
> script would do or document---it has chown'd the directories in 
> /Library/PostgreSQL8/ to user postgres, but it seems that a regular 
> postgres user has not been created.  It does create a NetInfo postgres 
> user with home /Library/PostgreSQL8/ and PG's initdb is supposed to be 
> run as postgres, but:
> 
> omero3.0b2.3/$ su - postgres
> Password:
> 
> I don't know what the password is here.
> 
> Thanks,
> Glenn
> 
> 
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Sean Burke wrote:
>> Glenn,
>>  It sounds like you haven't initialized your database, per the 
>> postgres setup instructions.  Check out:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/installation.html
>>
>> Look especially at the step that requires you to run "initdb".
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Sean