asterisk users - Sep 2006 - su - postgres -bash-3.00$

I'm trying to install Asterisk billing server and when I put in su -
postgres I get this response instead of the password response.
-bash-3.00$
-bash-3.00$
-bash-3.00$ 

Anyone seen this before? I'm using Fedora core 4 and have the same on a
local machine that works fine.

On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 07:02:12PM +0000, broadbandvoice@comcast.net
wrote:
> I'm trying to install Asterisk billing server and when I put in su -
postgres I get this response instead of the password response.
> -bash-3.00$
> -bash-3.00$
> -bash-3.00$ 
Run 'id -a' there and you'll see that you are actually postgress in
that
shell.

su does not ask for a password from root, normally.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen         sip:tzafrir@local.xorcom.com
icq#16849755          iax:tzafrir@local.xorcom.com
+972-50-7952406          jabber:tzafrir@jabber.org
tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com     http://www.xorcom.com

Thanks for all the help from Collin, I figured out the postgres database
creation. I now have a different problem trying download files. I get this
error. Maybe wget does not work in Fedora.

[root@sip0 a2billing]# wget
http://www.areski.net/Open_A2Billing_version_Racoon.tar.gz
--05:52:17--  http://www.areski.net/Open_A2Billing_version_Racoon.tar.gz
           => `Open_A2Billing_version_Racoon.tar.gz'
Resolving www.areski.net... 213.186.33.19
Connecting to www.areski.net|213.186.33.19|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
05:52:17 ERROR 404: Not Found.
[root@sip0 a2billing]# 


-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Collin Baillie <collin@xorotude.com> 
> broadbandvoice@comcast.net wrote: 
> > Yes it is running 
> > 
> > postgres 4049 0.0 0.3 20360 3072 ? S May24 0:00 
> > /usr/bin/postmaster -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/data 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Alright! So if you can do this: 
> 
> [root@sip0 /]# su - postgres 
> [bash-3.00 ~]$ whoami 
> 
> It should return something like: 
> 
> postgres 
> 
> or if you can do: 
> 
> [bash-3.00 ~]$ id -a 
> 
> it should return something like: 
> 
> uid=5000(postgres) gid=5000(postgres) groups=5000(postgres) 
> 
> Collin 
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