so of course after banging my head, and sending this message i found 
out what was going on.   there is a typo in the example at 
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/slony1/genpage.php?howto_basic

node 1 admin conninfo is missing the equal sign

maybe that should be fixed?

On Aug 27, 2004, at 8:32 PM, Brian Hirt wrote:

> when i try to run the first script at 
> http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/slony1/genpage.php?howto_basic i 
> always get a syntax error
> <stdin>:12: ERROR: syntax error at or near dbname=basement 
> host=localhost user=root'
>
> it seems whatever i do, i get syntax errors.  even trying just the 
> 'ECHO' command gives me a syntax error.
>
> [postgres at loopy postgres]$ slonik <<_EOF_
> > echo 'test';
> > _EOF_
> <stdin>:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near echo
> [postgres at loopy postgres]$
>
>
> [postgres at loopy postgres]$ slonik <<_EOF_
> > cluster name = 'TEST CLUSTER';
> > _EOF_
> <stdin>:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near TEST CLUSTER'
> [postgres at loopy postgres]$
>
> any advice on what i'm doing wrong?  i'm running Fedora CORE1, PG7.4.5 
> and slony 1.0.2 for the tests mentioned above.
>
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