Hi Kevin, I am new to this forum, but even i am facing this issue as reported where i get the below error. sudo -u shahid ./pg_ctl -D /root/pgsql10x/data/ initdb invalid binary "/root/pgsql10x/bin/pg_ctl" invalid binary "/root/pgsql10x/bin/pg_ctl" invalid binary "/root/pgsql10x/bin/pg_ctl" The program "initdb" is needed by pg_ctl but was not found in the same directory as "pg_ctl". Check your installation. FYI , I am trying to run this from root. As reported by H S, even i have built from the source. I am trying version 10. on CentOS7. I downloaded direct from postgres site. I am not facing this problem when i run as non-root user. I have all the files in the bin directory, as shared below, -rwxrwxrwx. 1 shahid shahid 7604946 Jul 6 17:19 postgres lrwxrwxrwx. 1 shahid shahid 8 Jul 6 17:19 postmaster -> postgres -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 908965 Jul 6 17:19 ecpg -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 128690 Jul 6 17:19 initdb -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 30548 Jul 6 17:19 pg_archivecleanup -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 112608 Jul 6 17:19 pg_basebackup -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 71241 Jul 6 17:19 pg_receivewal -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 72771 Jul 6 17:19 pg_recvlogical -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 30009 Jul 6 17:19 pg_config -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 39920 Jul 6 17:19 pg_controldata -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 58438 Jul 6 17:19 pg_ctl -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 400623 Jul 6 17:19 pg_dump -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 164991 Jul 6 17:19 pg_restore -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 97686 Jul 6 17:19 pg_dumpall -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 49138 Jul 6 17:19 pg_resetwal -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 88205 Jul 6 17:19 pg_rewind -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 31798 Jul 6 17:19 pg_test_fsync -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 26337 Jul 6 17:19 pg_test_timing -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 130515 Jul 6 17:19 pg_upgrade -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 86270 Jul 6 17:19 pg_waldump -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 141273 Jul 6 17:19 pgbench -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 454216 Jul 6 17:19 psql -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 60635 Jul 6 17:19 createdb -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 56335 Jul 6 17:19 dropdb -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 64416 Jul 6 17:19 createuser -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 56305 Jul 6 17:19 dropuser -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 61135 Jul 6 17:19 clusterdb -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 68735 Jul 6 17:19 vacuumdb -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 64047 Jul 6 17:19 reindexdb -rwxr-xr-x. 1 shahid shahid 59104 Jul 6 17:19 pg_isready Thanks Shahid -- Sent from: http://www.postgresql-archive.org/PostgreSQL-admin-f2076596.html
