Re: Permissions or initdb failure?

From: Jason Tishler <jason(at)tishler(dot)net>
To: Tom Halser <tom(at)halser(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Permissions or initdb failure?
Date: 2003-02-18 19:29:04
Message-ID: 20030218192903.GB2404@tishler.net
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Tom,

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:22:35PM +0100, Tom Halser wrote:
> $ initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
> The program 'postgres' is needed by initdb but was not found in
> the directory '/usr/bin'. Check your installation.
>
> Does anybody know what went wrong?

What is the permissions of /usr/bin/postgres.exe?

$ ls -l /usr/bin/postgres.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 Administ None 1979392 Dec 3 09:27 /usr/bin/postgres.exe

Is it executable by all? If not, then make it so.

Jason

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