This is exactly what i am doing. Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005 You have new mail. # su - postgres Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005 -bash-3.00$ id uid=49500(postgres) gid=65434(postgres) -bash-3.00$ initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data -bash: /usr/bin/initdb: Invalid argument permissions on /usr/bin/initdb is -r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 56276 Jul 12 19:26 /usr/bin/initdb permissions on the /var/lib/pgsql/data drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 512 Nov 27 15:43 data 10x 4 the help Doron -----Original Message----- From: Jim Nasby [mailto:decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tue 11/28/2006 1:06 AM To: Doron Baranes Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Solaris 10 problem On Nov 27, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Doron Baranes wrote: > I installed postgres 814 on solaris 10 using the following packages > SUNWpostgr-libs-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz > SUNWpostgr-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz > SUNWpostgr-server-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz > SUNWpostgr-server-data-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz > SUNWpostgr-contrib-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz > SUNWpostgr-devel-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz > SUNWpostgr-docs-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz > SUNWpostgr-jdbc-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz > SUNWpostgr-tcl-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz > SUNWpostgr-pl-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz > > and no error occured. > > when i try to run initdb i get Invalid Argument. What's the *exact* error you got, and how *exactly* did you invoke initdb? -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
