Hi y'all! I have just installed PostgreSQL on this SuSE 7.3. But I can not use it. As I installed insung YAST2, I assume that the right variables are set correctly. At least that was what YAST2 said ;-)) I admit I know almost nothing of it. I tried to launch pgaccess as a simple user to begin with, but the error (horror) message I get when I try to create a database is: "Error TCL en la ejecutando pg_exec create database nameofdatabase Is not a valid postgresql connection" Trying to understand (I hope) the instruction from some papers I got, I logged as user postgres and launched: initdb --pglib=/usr/lib/pgsql --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql and this time the error message was: initdb: invalid option: --pglib=/usr/lib/pgsql Try 'initdb --help' for more information. So I forgot all about pglib and tried: postgres@fumero:/home/alberto> initdb --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql This database system will be initialized with username "postgres". This user will own all the data files and must also own the server process. initdb: The directory /var/lib/pgsql exists but is not empty. If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty the directory /var/lib/pgsql or run initdb with an argument other than /var/lib/pgsql. How should I interpret this? TIA, -- MSc. Alberto García Fumero Centro de Información para la Educación Ministerio de Educación Usuario Linux No. 97 138 ¿Windows? No, gracias!