NetBSD Episode #2: Continuing On

Now I’ve continued, and done the following.

• Used pkg_add to install ruby19-rails, wget, links, vsftpd, django, south, and postgresql
• Copied /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/vsftpd to /etc/rc.d/vsftpd
• Copied /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/pgsql to /etc/rc.d/pgsql
• Added vsftpd=YES and pgsql=YES to /etc/rc.conf
• Then I went to initialize the postgres with initdb, ie:
  • useradd -m postgres
  • passwd postgres
  • mkdir /usr/local/pgsql /usr/local/pgsql/var
  • chown -R postgres:users /usr/local/pgsql
  • su postgres
  • initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/var

At this point, running initdb failed complaining it can’t create a “shared memory segment”. “This error usually means that PostgreSQL’s request for a shared memory segment exceeds available memory or swap space.

I ran out of time this morning and have not had an opportunity to address this yet.