Well, I was logged in as postgres when this occured.
I managed to resolve it by changing permissions on the /progs
directory to rwx. It had been r-x. Strange error message for a permissions
problem on a destination directory!
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alessio Bragadini" <
alessio@sevenseas.org>
To: "Tim Barnard" <
tbarnard@povn.com>
Cc: <
pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 7.1beta4 initdb problem
>
> Yes, happened to me, too. You need not to be root, but an unprivileged
> user (i.e. postgres). That's the strangest error message in a long
> time!
>
> --
> Alessio F. Bragadini
alessio@sevenseas.org>