Hi! I'm looking for a little help on starting Postgres on my SuSE 7.0 box. I've installed all the relevant rpm's, but suse.config is having trouble accessing the data dir of postgres (var/lib/pgsql/data) for configuration of the database dir: I have found this in my var/log/messages : /var/log/messages:8349:Mar 18 09:58:19 Yoda yast[1568]: Initializing the PostgreSQL database for location ~postgres/data ... -su: initlog: Permission denied BTW: A textfile with relevant messages from var/log/messages are included with this message. I have - I must admitt - messed around a bit to try to sett the data dir (PGDATA) variable. Now it is set to: root@Yoda:/home/larsf > echo $PGDATA /var/lib/pgsql/data . Trying to connect to a database with psql gives this result: postgres@Yoda:/home/larsf > psql psql: connectDBStart() -- connect() failed: Connection refused Is the postmaster running at 'localhost' and accepting connections on Unix socket '5432'? I have searched the SuSE support database; and I found an old artickle dealing with the lack of package pg_datab.rpm; but this seems to not be any part of the distro today; at least a search in yast1 gives no such package. Where do I go now; hints and tips are werry much apreciated as I am now at the end of my limited knowledge on this matter. Regards Lars Forseth