On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:09:15 +0200, Jarkko Elfving <jarelf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi again... > > I tried to solve my PostgreSQL cluster problem like Michael Fuhr and > Lonni Friedman helps me, but I didn't get it work. So I figured out that > if I do an fresh installation and removed the PostgreSQL completely > (even those JDBC and PL -drivers - everything) and be sure that it is > completely removed. Then I installed it again with rpm -Uhv command and > start to proceed like the manuals tells me, but now I'm in dead-end: > initdb fails because postgres program was not found. How this could be > happened? I did not removed the postgres user because I thought that is > not needed to do. Initdb returns following fail: > > # su postgres > bash-3.00$ initdb -D=/var/lib/pgsql/data/ > fgets failure: Success > The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the > same directory as "/usr/bin/initdb". > Check your installation. > > I did check that file postgres really is in /usr/bin -folder. > > How should I proceed now? Are you using the RPMs? If so, then starting postgresql with /etc/init.d/postgresql for the first time will run initdb for you. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
