<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi Steve - <br></span></div><div><span>I am the system admin : ) and can go ahead and setup sudo for the postgres user.</span></div><div><span>Part of my goal here was to follow the instructions as strictly as possible for a clean Ubuntu install. <br></span></div><div><span>If the postgres user ins't a sudo'er out of the box, then the instructions should point out the need to add this.</span></div><div><span>It might be "understood" by *nix experts, but not so much for newer types.</span></div><div><span>Also, the instruction to do do all of these tasks as postgres is left out of the online docs, so it's tough to identify which is correct.</span></div><div><span>I'd be glad to file tickets or write alternative copy to make them consistent... as long as I know which is
correct.</span></div><div><span>Thanks!</span></div><div><span>Jeff<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri@swoodbridge.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, May 4, 2012 10:00 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0 installation problem - Ubuntu 12.04<br> </font> </div> <br>
On 5/4/2012 8:47 PM, jeffmeyer wrote:<br>> Yes - I've tried all that& install fails. Here's what comes next after sudo<br>> make install:<br>><br>> postgres@jeffmetp:~/postgis-2.0.1SVN$ sudo make install<br>> [sudo] password for postgres:<br>> postgres is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.<br>> postgres@jeffmetp:~/postgis-2.0.1SVN$<br>><br>> Bug filed - http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/1804<br><br>Jeff,<br><br>Talk to your system admin or google how to setup sudo for the postgres <br>user. This is a system problem not a postgres problem. An alternative if <br>you have the root passwd is to to use:<br><br>su<br>make install<br>exit<br><br>-Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>postgis-users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net"
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