Try running the initdb program first.
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zengfa Gao" <zfgao@yahoo.com>
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
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
>
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