Re: [Genex-users] Re:

[<hde...@gm...>]

Gotcha, found the .config file in etc dir.
Thx,
Hrishi

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----- Original Message -----
From: Harry Mangalam <hj...@ta...>
Date: Monday, April 19, 2004 3:19 pm
Subject: [Genex-users] Re:

> Hi Hrishi,
> 
> Good point of clarification.
> 
> If you install postgres as per the apt-get line you mention in 1), 
> you should 
> not have to do much else, besides following the instructions in 
> the section marked:
> 
> 
> Modify configuration files:
> ===========================
> 1- ...
> 
> 2 - modify the Postgresql config file for GeneX:
> 
> which tells you how to modify the PG config file.
> 
> The lines:
> >    For the basic postgres installation, please see:
> >    http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/installation.html
> 
> point you to the documentation that tell you how to do the basic 
> postgres 
> installation.  (You should understand the basics of how the system 
> works.)However the specifics are mentioned in the postgres stanza
> 
> hde...@gm... wrote:
> > Hi Harry,
> > 
> > Couple of  "silly" questions:
> > 
> > I have been following the instructions/guidelines given in the 
> INSTALL documnet in the latest genex-server dir (did svn 
> .............)> 
> > 1) I did:
> > The following commands pasted into a root shell will install 
> most of 
> > the pre-requisites you need to support GeneX :
> > 
> > apt-get update
> > 
> > apt-get install  postgresql postgresql-dev postgresql-client 
> postgresql-doc \
> >  libpgtcl libpgperl pgaccess unixodbc-bin expat perlSGML apache-
> dev \
> >  libapache-mod-perl libdevel-symdump-perl odbc-postgresql 
> libpgjava \
> >  perl-modules libterm-readkey-perl libapache-session-perl \
> >  libapache-request-perl  libdbd-pg-perl libdbi-perl \
> >  libhtml-mason-perl libtie-ixhash-perl libxml-xerces-perl r-base-
> core \
> >  r-recommended r-base r-base-dev r-base-html odbc-postgresql 
> libiodbc2 \
> >  unixodbc libpgjava pgaccess unixodbc-bin postgresql-client 
> postgresql-doc \
> >  libecpg-dev libpgtcl libdbd-pgsql 
> > 
> > Now the question is do i have to install postgresql , as per the 
> instructions given @
> > 2 - modify the Postgresql config file for GeneX:
> > 
> >    For the basic postgres installation, please see:
> >    http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/installation.html
> > 
> > OR does it mean that when i did step (1) postgresql was 
> installed and i can skip the link and what it says??!!
> > 
> > Now at the step of enabling GeneX2 DB for remote access via TCP, 
> one IP is the local host, the second IP should be the IP of the 
> machineon which genex is being installed?!
> 
> The paragraph below that tells what the 2 numbers are:
> 
> 
> # TYPE  DATABASE    USER        IP-ADDRESS        IP-MASK          
> METHOD
> host    all         all         127.0.0.1         255.255.255.255  
> password
> host    genex       all         192.168.1.0       255.255.255.0    
> password
> 
>    In the above example, the first line allows all users from the 
> local machine
>    to access all databases as long as they provide valid 
> passwords.  The second
>    line allows machines from a private subnet (192.168.1.0, masked
>    255.255.255.0) to access only the genex DB and only if they 
> are known
>    postgres users and  supply the correct postgresql password.  
> There are more
>    (and less) stringent  authentication schemes described in the 
> comments in
>    'pg_hba.conf'.
>    The two net address fields specify to which client machines a 
> host  or
>    hostssl   record applies, based on their IP address.  The 
> precise logic
>    is that the (actual-IP-address XOR IP-address-field) AND IP-
> mask-field must
>    be zero for the record to match.
> 
> > 
> > Trivial/silly, i thought it was good to clarify just in case and 
> may be add a 
> line or two in the INSTALL doc that resolves these "silly" questions.
> 
> what part of the above is unclear?  Did you read the comments in 
> the pg_hba.conf 
> file?  I admit, it's not drop-dead simple, but it's the way 
> postgres works and 
> if you don't understand the postgres basics, you won't be able to 
> administer the 
> system.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Waiting for your reply.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Hrishi
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Harry
> Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (v&f) - hj...@ta...
>             <<plain text preferred>>
> 
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