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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Bizzare initdb failure: "The program "postgres" is needed by initdb"
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Msg-id 20762.1109221322@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Bizzare initdb failure: "The program "postgres" is needed by initdb"  (Valentin Rodionov <valiar@scripps.edu>)
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Valentin Rodionov <valiar@scripps.edu> writes:
> [postgres@feanor bin]$ ./initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
> sh: /dev/null: Permission denied

[ raised eyebrow... ]  So what are the permissions on your /dev/null?

            regards, tom lane

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