Re: BUG #15265: The program "initdb" is needed by pg_ctl but was not found in the same directory as "pg_ctl".

Hi Tom,
Thanks for the quick response.
The same build and, the same command works fine on a non-root user.
Since, this time i am running from a root login, the command i use is as
follows.
su - shahid -c '/root/pgsql10x/bin/pg_ctl -D /root/pgsql10x/data/ initdb'

The bin folder has 777 permission with the owner being shahid here.
If you see my post I have shared the ls-lrt output for reference.

I have been using the same command for my earlier 9.6.3 version of build,
and it worked without any trouble.

Thanks again,
Mohammed Shahid Nawaz

On Sat 7 Jul, 2018, 1:32 AM Tom Lane, <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> =?utf-8?q?PG_Bug_reporting_form?= <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > sudo -u shahid ./pg_ctl -D /root/pgsql10x/data/ initdb
> > invalid binary "/root/pgsql10x/bin/pg_ctl"
>
> I think you would get that error if pg_ctl is unable to stat itself,
> which might be due to a permissions problem. Are you sure the shahid
> user can read/exec all the directories in that path (particularly /root)?
>
> regards, tom lane
>