From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Jan 11 06:51:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA26273 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 06:51:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA26266 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 06:51:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA11973; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 06:49:48 -0800 To: John Fieber cc: Thomas Gellekum , marcos@eig.unige.ch, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Postgres95 and FBSD 2.1R In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jan 1996 07:24:28 EST." Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 06:49:48 -0800 Message-ID: <11971.821371788@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > A proper installation involves adding a new user to the systems > (postgres) and becoming that user for the installation. Any good ideas > on how to do that in the ports scheme? >From the package's install script: 1. Invoke adduser to add user 2. Run second install script with su username < script2 Wouldn't that work? Jordan