Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC28632917 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:18:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43054-02 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:18:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CAC563285A for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:18:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2010 22:17:58 -0000 Received: from 91-65-152-165-dynip.superkabel.de (EHLO [192.168.178.22]) [91.65.152.165] by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 12 Apr 2010 00:17:58 +0200 X-Authenticated: #955937 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19nWXkn7QtnUVCK/ABwS+rlz9jPfVWAkgy+jx7CTz uUScPxSFjRDDsQ Message-ID: <4BC24A7D.3020602@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:17:33 +0200 From: Jan-Peter Seifert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: initdb failure References: <2873D0DE40695D48B76CDF7C6620A1540A2D5334@xmb-sjc-226.amer.cisco.com> <4BBEF2CF020000250003064F@gw.wicourts.gov> <2873D0DE40695D48B76CDF7C6620A1540A2D5799@xmb-sjc-226.amer.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <2873D0DE40695D48B76CDF7C6620A1540A2D5799@xmb-sjc-226.amer.cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.76000000000000001 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.011 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201004/128 X-Sequence-Number: 34222 Hello, > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by > user "Administrator". > This user must also own the server process. the user here should be postgres. Are you 'locally'/'directly' installing on the server machine? Good luck. Peter