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From Tambet Matiisen
Subject Re: initdb/XP/could not locate executable
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Msg-id 81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE1B14BF@black.aprote.com
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In response to initdb/XP/could not locate executable  (Pete Boysen <pboysen@iastate.edu>)
Responses Re: initdb/XP/could not locate executable  (Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net>)
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> initializing pg_shadow... LOG:  FindExec: invalid binary
> "/usr/bin/postgres"
> FATAL:  /usr/bin/postgres: could not locate executable, bailing out...
>

Following seemed to fix the problem in our case:

chmod 755 /usr/bin
chmod 755 /usr/bin/postgres

I'm not sure the first one is really needed.

  Tambet

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