Andrew,
>
> I know, I know, replying to myself, but reading that over, it didn't
> even make sense to me. What I _meant_ to say was that you probably
> don't have adduser in a location on your path. You could add it
> explicitly before trying to install postgres. e.g.
yep, adduser lives in /usr/sbin
[chauser@gulliver pgsql]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/adduser
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 31 15:17 /usr/sbin/adduser -> useradd
Charles