Would you report this to the RPM maintainers? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jamie Strachan wrote: > > The following bug has been logged online: > > Bug reference: 5430 > Logged by: Jamie Strachan > Email address: frostfr...@yahoo.com > PostgreSQL version: 8.4.3-2PGDG.el4 > Operating system: CentOS 4 > Description: initdb fails due to permissions of /usr/share/pgsql > Details: > > Hello, > > Downloaded the following RPM: > http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.4/redhat/rhel-4-i386/postgresql-server-8.4.3-2PGD > G.el4.i386.rpm > > for my CentOS 4 install. > > service postgresql initdb fails with no error message. > > So, I su'd to postgres, and ran > > initdb --pgdata=/var/lib/pgsql/data --auth=ident > which is what service postgresql initdb does. > This command failed, with the error message: > > could not open directory "/usr/share/pgsql/timezonesets" > > > I did a > chown -R postgres:postgres /usr/share/pgsql > and then it worked fine. > > Using rpm2cpio {file} | cpio -tv > I see: > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Mar 17 16:21 ./usr/share/pgsql > which is fine, however there is no specific entry for > /usr/share/timezone. > The post-install script doesn't seem to fix it, either. > > -- > Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
