Re: Postgres not getting logged in from command prompt - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Albe Laurenz
Subject Re: Postgres not getting logged in from command prompt
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Msg-id D960CB61B694CF459DCFB4B0128514C2085892F6@exadv11.host.magwien.gv.at
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In response to Postgres not getting logged in from command prompt  (Himanshu Joshi <himanshu.joshi@orkash.com>)
Responses Re: Postgres not getting logged in from command prompt
Re: Postgres not getting logged in from command prompt
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Himanshu Joshi wrote:
>         I am getting a below mentioned strange error while logging
into
> postgres from linux command prompt. It is working fine with
GUI(pgAdmin
> III). I am using postgres version 8.4SS.
> Himanshu
> # cd /opt/PostgresPlus/8.4SS/
> # bin/psql -Upostgres -p
> bin/psql: line 1: bzip2,: command not found
> bin/psql: line 3: usage:: command not found
> bin/psql: line 5: -h: command not found
> bin/psql: line 6: -d: command not found
> bin/psql: line 7: -z: command not found
> bin/psql: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> bin/psql: line 8: `   -k --keep           keep (don't delete) input
files'
> #
>
> I have already given the restart to postgres as well as the server
many
> times, but it didnt worked.
> Plz suggest any solution for that.

That looks like bin/psql is not an executable but a text file,
which it should not be.

How did you install PostgreSQL?  What is in that file and how
did it get there?

Maybe reinstalling the PostgreSQL software will help.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe


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