Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC33D650224 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:22:10 -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 56227-09 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:22:10 -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 836AB64FEE1 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:22:10 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by easy2.in-chemnitz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED85470009 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:22:07 +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 BIwJtmiCd9ra for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:22:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by easy2.in-chemnitz.de (Postfix, from userid 1013) id 2CB90470008; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:22:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:22:07 +0100 From: Tino Schwarze To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: installing without shell access Message-ID: <20081110192207.GA3045@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: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archive-Number: 200811/56 X-Sequence-Number: 30710 On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:54:57AM -0700, Scott Marlowe 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? > > most web languanges ala php allow you to execute arbitrary commands > (using back ticks in php) so theoretically she could probably do it. While that might somehow work it's most probably something the hosting provider won't like to see. PHP scripts are not expected to launch persistent server processes. Better get a dedicated server for that purpose. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de