the other side of the firewall

I had some minor trouble installing postgres on Solaris 10.
For instance, I had the following error message:

ld.so.1: initdb: fatal: libreadline.so.5: open failed:
No such file or directory
Killed


So, here is a summary of what I had to do.

• install the libreadline package (can be found on the Sun web site)
  pkgadd -d SFWrline
• install the postgres package (postgresql-8.0.1-sol10-sparc-local) from sunfreeware
  pkgadd -d postgresql-8.0.1-sol10-sparc-local

• add a symbolic link for libreadline.so.5
  ln -s libreadline.so libreadline.so.5
• make sure your LD_LIBRARY_PATH is properly set-up
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/lib:/opt/sfw/lib

• run the init command
  /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
• et voilà
  
Success. You can now start the database server using:
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
or
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start


When doing some development and administration with MySQL or Postgres, the command line is not always the most convenient way to do.
Here are some tools that can be front-ends to the database.

For MySQL:

• SQLyog (free)

For PostgresQL:

• pgAdmin III (this is part of the Postgtres distribution on Windows) (free)

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if you get a
BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) on protocol request 102
when trying to do remote X via ssh -X, try ssh -Y instead.

I have compiled some of my tips in a local page at http://sahuguet.blogsome.com/os-x-cookbook/.

More to come, of course.