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List:       bricolage-general
Subject:    Re: [Bricolage-General] Newbie help: Unable to Connect to Database
From:       David Wheeler <david () kineticode ! com>
Date:       2003-07-29 18:56:32
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On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 11:01  AM, Cinly Ooi wrote:

> Thank you very much for helping me out. It is working now. Its the 
> pg_hba.conf file that crashed me out.

Cool.

>> You're right, it is.
>
> Dave, you are not the only one that miss it. I miss it too... and I 
> still cannot find it. ;(

That's "David."

 > and the section mentioning pg_hba.conf is in
>
> Why does |make install| exit with the following error?
>
>  IDENT authentication failed for user "postgres"
>
>
> My installation didn't fail. Is only after Dave asked me to try to 
> connect to postgres on command line that I got a similar error.

Yeah, the FAQ question should perhaps be changed.

> Although I can see how these two items are linked now, I cannot see 
> them initially.  Installing bricolage is definitely much easier then 
> installing a lot of other application (kudos to development team) but 
> is still not without any potential glitch. (Which application can do 
> it without glitch?)
>
> I want to share my experience of how someone who don't known about 
> "CPAN, postgres, bricolage" gets bricolage to work. As Dave knows, I 
> jump through a few hurdles to get it work. (Nothing major, the hurdles 
> are there simply because I am a newbie in all three areas mentioned 
> before.) I think the FAQ section on installation problems can be beef 
> up and I am to contribute by to writing up "how I overcome the 
> hurdles". How can I contribute to the FAQ or may be some other 
> suitable place?

perldoc Bric::Hacker, and then hack on Bric::FAQ (lib/Bric/FAQ.pod in 
the distribution) and send the diffs you generate according to the 
instructions in Bric::Hacker to bricolage-devel.

HTH,

David

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