Try running the initdb program first. Best Wishes, Chris Travers
----- Original Message ----- From: "Zengfa Gao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:43 AM Subject: [SQL] PgSQL 7.3: /opt/pgsql/bin/postgres: Execute permission denied. > Hi, > > I download PgSQL source, compiled it, then try to > start pgsql, I got: > > > # su postgres -c '/opt/pgsql/bin/initdb > --pgdata=/var/opt/pgsql/data' > The program > '/opt/pgsql/bin/postgres' > needed by initdb does not belong to PostgreSQL version > 7.3, or > there may be a configuration problem. > > This was the error message issued by that program: > /opt/pgsql/bin/initdb[135]: /opt/pgsql/bin/postgres: > Execute permission denied. > > I check the permission of postgres: > # ls -l /opt/pgsql/bin/postgres > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 2994176 Jan 8 > 09:53 /opt/pgsql/bin/postgres > > But same code works fine on my another HPUX 11.11 > system. File permission is same. > > Does anyone have some ideas? > > Thanks! > > Zengfa > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
