Re: BUG #5430: initdb fails due to permissions of /usr/share/pgsql

Hi,

On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 14:22 +0000, Jamie Strachan wrote:
>
> for my CentOS 4 install.
>
> service postgresql initdb fails with no error message.
>
> So, I su'd to postgres, and ran
>
> initdb --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql/data --auth=ident
> which is what service postgresql initdb does.
> This command failed, with the error message:
>
> could not open directory "/usr/share/pgsql/timezonesets"

Cannot reproduce it on my 8.4+CentOS 4 box:

-bash-3.00$ initdb --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql/data --auth=ident
...
Success. You can now start the database server using:
...

timezonesets directory has already *enough* permissions for postgres
user to read it:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-03-19 09:45 timezonesets

Are you sure that you did not chmod somewhere between installing package
and initdb'ing?

Regards,
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