[ovirt-devel] Error in setup of ovirt-engine Development Environment

[Alexander Wels]

On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 1:56:27 PM EDT shubham dubey wrote:
> I am running it as normal user because when I am running it as root user it
> is giving me following error
> 
> "root" execution of the PostgreSQL server is not permitted.
> The server must be started under an unprivileged user ID to prevent
> possible system security compromise.  See the documentation for
> more information on how to properly start the server.
> 

Yes don't run that part as root. What I usually do after installing the 
packages and configuring the database is sudo to postgres and run psql engine. 
Then paste the part between the double quotes in. I always manage to screw up 
the quotes otherwise.

> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:14 PM, Fred Rolland <frolland at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Under which user are you running this command ?
> > In the guide, it is specified to run it as root.
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:30 PM, shubham dubey <sdubey504 at gmail.com>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> I am trying to setup ovirt-engine using this link
> >> http://www.ovirt.org/develop/developer-guide/engine/engine-d
> >> evelopment-environment/.
> >> Now when I am trying these commands I am getting following error
> >> $postgres -c "psql -d template1 -c \"create user engine
> >> password 'engine';\""
> >> FATAL:  -c psql -d template1 -c "create user engine password 'engine';"
> >> requires a value
> >> 
> >> and
> >> $postgres -c "psql -d template1 -c "create database engine \
> >> owner engine template template0 encoding 'UTF8' lc_collate \
> >> 'en_US.UTF-8' lc_ctype 'en_US.UTF-8';\""
> >> FATAL:  -c psql -d template1 -c "create database engine owner engine
> >> template template0 encoding 'UTF8' lc_collate 'en_US.UTF-8' lc_ctype
> >> 'en_US.UTF-8';" requires a value
> >> 
> >> So I think the syntax given there is not right,So can anyone tell me the
> >> correct syntax.Or maybe I am doing something wrong.
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Shubham
> >> 
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