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From: Scott Watson <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: initdb
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:11:37 -0500
Message-ID: <CAPGHy5+=N7QYwnOCskEF9e8Gy70Qip2n9AGZoHJreGvPup_Nmg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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	<[email protected]>

Hi Tom,

I was running initdb command when calling the postgresql96-setup command.
  Trying to run this as the user postgres failed.

/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/postgresql96-setup initdb

The database was created under /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data

thanks
Scott.


On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 4:56 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

> =?utf-8?q?PG_Doc_comments_form?= <[email protected]> writes:
> > So I was trying to create a new db with initdb.  I tried to run this with
> > the postgres user after installing the server rpm and it failed with
> runuser
> > may not be run as non-root users.   So then for fun I tried to run init
> db
> > as the root user which should have failed but instead it just reported
> > initializing database ... OK
>
> hmm, worksforme:
>
> $ sudo initdb -D someplace
> initdb: cannot be run as root
> Please log in (using, e.g., "su") as the (unprivileged) user that will
> own the server process.
>
> Were you actually running initdb directly, or some script that perhaps
> sudo'd internally?
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>

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