Unable to configure webstack - SXDE

Question

Noob here. Firstly, feel free to redirect if this is the wrong forum.
I just installed the current release of SXDE on VMware server. I am now trying to configure the webstack, as per the Getting Started guide (as per file:///opt/webstack/doc/html/p3.html).
I am currently stuck at the step 5a: Configure the PostgreSQL database with NetBeans IDE 6.0.- . Create a New Database Connection.
As I have not used NetBeans before, I am kind of hunt'n'pecking to perform this operation. The NetBeans Help system isn't (isn't any help, that is - at least on this topic). Poking around, I found Services>Databases>Drivers>PostgreSQL. If I rt-clk>ConnectUsing on this, it opens a dialog with fields named as the Getting Started guide would lead me to expect. Filling this out as per the Getting Started guide*, and clicking OK yields the following error dialog:
[!] Unable to add connection. Cannot establish a connection to jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/postgres using org.postgresql.Driver (The connection attempt failed.).* what should I use for a password in this dialog? I have tried the root password, my user password, "postgres", and blank. I kind of assume I need to use the password for user postgres, but the Getting Started guide has not prompted me to create one. It has prompted me to create a user postgres, but I have not, as /etc/passwd indicates there is already a user by that name in the system. Is there a default password for the user postgres?
For that matter, is this even the right mechanism within NetBeans for peforming this configuration? The Getting Started guide seems to assume previous exposure to NetBeans - I have none.
Possible contributing factors:
I first used the first form of starting the database server:
$/usr/postgres/8.2/bin/postgres -D /var/postgres/8.2/dataI didn't like the fact that it was foregrounded. I figured the other form may be backgrounded, so I
<ctl>-C out
then used the other form:
$ /usr/postgres/8.2/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/postgres/8.2/data -l logfile start
sh: logfile: cannot create
server starting
$ pwd
/                                                                  // no longer root - user postgres can't create /logfile?
$ /usr/postgres/8.2/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/postgres/8.2/data -l logfile stop             // just a guess
pg_ctl: PID file "/var/postgres/8.2/data/postmaster.pid" does not exist
$ cd /var/postgres/8.2/data
$ /usr/postgres/8.2/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/postgres/8.2/data -l logfile start
server startingThe bottom of the page of the Getting Started guide says:
See Also
For more information about configuring PostgreSQL database with NetBeans IDE, see <link>.
However, the <link> is not a <link>. Anyone know what this should point to?
The logfile, as I think I have started it(is this location superseded by the subsequent svcadm?)
# cat /var/postgres/8.2/data/logfile
LOG:  database system was shut down at 2008-04-02 09:32:24 MDT
LOG:  checkpoint record is at 0/42CE60
LOG:  redo record is at 0/42CE60; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
LOG:  next transaction ID: 0/593; next OID: 10820
LOG:  next MultiXactId: 1; next MultiXactOffset: 0
LOG:  database system is ready
LOG:  received smart shutdown request
LOG:  shutting down
LOG:  database system is shut downSays shut down, but seems to be running?:
# svcs | grep postg
online          9:44:11 svc:/application/database/postgresql:version_82Any help would be most appreciated. As would a recommendation for "Getting Started with Solaris for Linux Users".

Answer 1

duplicate message
please see my reply to your other post.
Caterina
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