Dave,
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 11:53:00AM -0600, Davide Bruzzone wrote:
> $ initdb -D /usr/share/postgresql/data
> [snip]
> initializing pg_shadow... FindExec: invalid binary "/usr/bin/postgres"
> FATAL 1: /usr/bin/postgres: could not locate executable, bailing out...
I was able to reproduce the above problem by doing the following:
$ chmod g-x,o-x /usr/bin/postgres.exe
> If I go and look in /usr/bin, I find postgres.exe, and postmaster
> (Which is a symlink to postgres.exe).
What is the output of the following?
$ ls -l /usr/bin/postgres.exe
-rwxrw-rw- 1 Administ Domain U 2708992 Jun 10 08:13 /usr/bin/postgres.exe
^ ^
* *
If it is the same as or similar to the above (i.e., missing group and/or
other execute permissions), then do the following to fix your
permissions:
$ chmod +x /usr/bin/postgres.exe
Does this solve your problem?
> Has anyone seen this before?
No.
> Can anyone point me in the direction of some information regarding
> this problem?
See above
But, the really question is why did your permissions get whacked if my
WAG is correct?
Jason
