Hi! My first posting seems to get no response, but I have been researching my problem a little more. This evening I cleaned out all postgres related stuff, and reinstalled, using yast1. From the /var/log/postgres file I can read this afterwards: "No data directory -- can't proceed. /usr/bin/postmaster does not find the database system. Expected to find it in the PGDATA directory "~postgres/data", but unable to open file with pathname "~postgres/data/base/template1/pg_class". No data directory -- can't proceed." Looking into this dir I get this: "larsf@Yoda:~ > cd ~postgres/data larsf@Yoda:/var/lib/pgsql/data > ls -al total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 20 19:56 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 20 19:56 .. -rwx---rw- 1 postgres daemon 27 Aug 6 2000 pg_options larsf@Yoda:/var/lib/pgsql/data >" Looking for pg_class results in this: "larsf@Yoda:/var/log > locate pg_class /usr/include/pgsql/catalog/pg_class.h" So it seems I'm lacking some dirs and files, presumably SUSEconfig has failed in building the template1 standard database and database dir during install of the RPM's; why? What to do? Could somebody supply a stock data dir so I could copy it into this dir, and get postgres up and running? Regards, LarsF -- -------------------------- Lars Forseth http://www.uio.no/~forseth MS WIN > /dev/null TUX rules --------------------------