Re: initdb/XP/could not locate executable

Tambet,

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:58:16AM +0200, Tambet Matiisen wrote:
> ...
> > initializing pg_shadow... LOG: FindExec: invalid binary "/usr/bin/postgres"
> > FATAL: /usr/bin/postgres: could not locate executable, bailing out...
> >
>
> Following seemed to fix the problem in our case:
>
> chmod 755 /usr/bin
> chmod 755 /usr/bin/postgres
>
> I'm not sure the first one is really needed.

Only the second one is need to solve the problem this time. But, the
first will prevent it from happening again when setup.exe installs a
newer version of PostgreSQL.

I believe that following may solve this problem once and for all:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-01/msg00105.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-01/msg00106.html

Thanks for your help.

Jason

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