Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE93964FCF8 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:02:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26203-07 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:02:42 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from easy2.in-chemnitz.de (easy2.in-chemnitz.de [88.198.17.232]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 696F664FC77 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:02:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by easy2.in-chemnitz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF45C470009 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:02:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from easy2.in-chemnitz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (easy.in-chemnitz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id lF+P4S-vRtyq for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:02:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by easy2.in-chemnitz.de (Postfix, from userid 1013) id BC493470008; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:02:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:02:39 +0100 From: Tino Schwarze To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: installing without shell access Message-ID: <20081110170239.GB32370@easy2.in-chemnitz.de> References: <49185831.2060303@navarrocollege.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <49185831.2060303@navarrocollege.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archive-Number: 200811/51 X-Sequence-Number: 30705 On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:50:09AM -0600, Dana Holland wrote: > Is it at all possible to get pgsql installed on a system without access > to a shell? A friend is wanting me to install a particular bulletin > board system on her website; however, her hosting plan only provides the > MySQL database - the bulletin board requires pgsql. And her hosting > plan has no ssh access. > > So, is it possible to install the database with only ftp access to the > account? No. You need to be able to at least start the server process which you cannot do via FTP. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de