From: Ian Justman (ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US)
Date: 02/14/93


From: ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman )
Subject: Re: Ingres problems
Date: 14 Feb 1993 21:42:21 GMT

raba@netmbx.netmbx.de (R. Ballier) writes:
: In article <1993Feb11.011314.759@citrus.SAC.CA.US> ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman ) writes:
: >Hello all.
: >
: >I'm trying to get Ingres (FTPed it from tsx-11 from /pub/linux/packages)
: >to work. Everything seemed to compile OK, but the problem is that when I try
: >to create the demo database, it gives me the error message, "user ingres no
: >found in the password file" or words to that effect. Note that I did add
                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: >that user into my password file. Any help, either here or e-mail, will be
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: >GREATLY appreciated. I check both fairly frequently.
:
: Had you used the program 'useradd' for adding the user ingres?

Had you not read what I had originally written? I had added the user
"ingres". I guess I didn't say that I used useradd to do that.

: I believe it
: is not be enough to add a line to the password file using an editor
: (because of /etc/shadow).

I also gave user ingres a password. It STILL failed.

But I found my real problem was not so much the lack of password, but lack
of permission on the /etc/passwd file. It was shipped with 600; I set them
to 644, and it fired up like a charm.

But now, I have a new problem. The new problem is this:

Now that I have the source compiled and their binaries installed, I go to
create the demo database with the following command:

# demodb demo -c

and it gives me a message to the effect of:

creating database demo. Please wait.

And I waited... and waited... and waited...

I got so impatient, I type CTRL-C to quit it.

A ps -a told me that the command "creatdb -c demo" was running, and somewhere
in there, the program dies. However, I can quit it easily.

However, Zeyd and I are corresponding about this.

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Born to void warranties!        ianj@ijpc.UUCP