installing Postgres

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 16:59, Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:

> $sudo su postgres -c '/opt/local/lib/postgresql90/bin/pg_ctl start -D
> /path/to/db/postgresql90/defaultdb -l ~/Logs/postgresql90-server/main.log'
>
> but, I don't know the password for the 'postgres' user
>

Are you using the actual command you quoted?  The "sudo" shifts to root,
which doesn't need a password to "su postgres".

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