postmaster question

Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie_cumberland@yahoo.com>

From: root <Lonnie_Cumberland@yahoo.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-02-20T23:48:14Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Hello All,

does anyone know how to get the postmaster set up properly in a native
version of Mandrake Linux 7.1?

I see that that RPM's are there, but the the backend daemon is not up
and running. I tried to just enter "postmaster" but it says that
I cannot be runnig it as root and that it needs it's own userid.

I did not see where in the docs that the install discusses this.

Any ideas anyone?

Best Regards,
Lonnie