viraj wrote: > hi all, > manged to overcome the issue. the problem was with the shebang line of > the pg_ctlcluster script. > > i replaced the switch '-T' with a '-t', turning Perl's 'tainting > checks' to 'tainting warnings'. Just FYI, pg_ctlcluster is a Debian-specific program, so you should take this bug report with them. Maybe this particular problem is already fixed in a later revision of the Debian packages; it's too serious for it to be overlooked for too long. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.