[check_postgres] installation problems

[lcarson at ucsd.edu]

Hello,

I'm trying to install check_postgresql for the first time and am having
trouble.  I followed the complete installation instructions and the
standard PG binaries are available, ex:

lcarson at azrael ~/Workbench/check_postgres/check_postgres-2.9.1>which psql
psql is /usr/local/apps/postgresql-8.1.4/bin/psql
lcarson at azrael ~/Workbench/check_postgres/check_postgres-2.9.1>

and have also set PGBINDIR to /usr/local/apps/postgresql-8.1.4/bin

The only clue I have is in the log:
lcarson at azrael
~/Workbench/check_postgres/check_postgres-2.9.1/test_database_check_postgres>less
pg.log
postmaster cannot access the server configuration file
"/users/u3/lcarson/Workbench/check_postgres/check_postgres-2.9.1/test_database_check_postgres/data
space/postgresql.conf": No such file or directory

but there were no instructions to create the postgresql.conf file.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a better place to ask this question?

thanks in advance,

L Carson
advanced systems programmer
San Diego Supercomputer Center
La Jolla, CA


sample errors:

lcarson at azrael ~/Workbench/check_postgres/check_postgres-2.9.1>make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/apps/perl-5.8.8/bin/perl
"-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')"
t/*.t
t/00_basic................ok
t/00_signature............
#   Failed test 'Invalid signature file 'check_postgres.pl.asc''
#   at t/00_signature.t line 31.
t/00_signature............NOK 1/2gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
gpg: new configuration file `/users/u3/lcarson/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
gpg: WARNING: options in `/users/u3/lcarson/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet
active during this run
gpg: Signature made Fri Jun 12 19:28:26 2009 PDT using DSA key ID 14964AC8
gpg: external keyserver calls are not supported in this build
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
==> BAD/TAMPERED signature detected! <==

#   Failed test 'Invalid SIGNATURE file'
#   at t/00_signature.t line 52.
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 2.
t/00_signature............dubious
        Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-2
        Failed 2/2 tests, 0.00% okay
t/00_test_tester..........Gave up waiting for
test_database_check_postgres/pg.log to say it was ready
# Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
t/00_test_tester..........dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED test 1
        Failed 1/1 tests, 0.00% okay
t/02_autovac_freeze.......Gave up waiting for
test_database_check_postgres/pg.log to say it was ready
# Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
t/02_autovac_freeze.......dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-8
        Failed 8/8 tests, 0.00% okay
t/02_backends.............Gave up waiting for
test_database_check_postgres/pg.log to say it was ready
# Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
t/02_backends.............dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-52
        Failed 52/52 tests, 0.00% okay
t/02_bloat................Gave up waiting for
test_database_check_postgres/pg.log to say it was ready
# Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
t/02_bloat................dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-26
        Failed 26/26 tests, 0.00% okay

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