Re: Dead-end in PostgreSQL 8.0 fresh installation (while

On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 02:15 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Uh, /var/lib/pgsql should have been created for you by RPM installation.
> I'm starting to think you have a corrupted postgresql-server RPM.
>
> Also, in your prior message:
>
> > bash-3.00$ initdb -D=/var/lib/pgsql/data/
> > fgets failure: Success
> > The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the
> > same directory as "/usr/bin/initdb".
> > Check your installation.
>
> As best I can tell from the source code, this could only happen if
> "/usr/bin/postgres -V" failed. What happens if you do that by hand?
> What does "ls -l /usr/bin/postgres" show?
>
> regards, tom lane
>

Yes, I noticed that RPM did a folder /var/lib/pgsql but I was thinking
'coz I didn't get it worked that in easy way, I start to read some of
Postrge instructions where was telling to do this. Anyway, I check what
ls -l /usr/bin/postgres tells me, and result were expected:

# ls -l /usr/bin/postgres
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2541272 Jan 18 11:31 /usr/bin/postgres

Also I run a /usr/bin/postgres -V but this doesn't give any results.

I'm quite new on Linux.

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Jarkko Elfving <jarelf(at)ebaana(dot)net>