Rafael Martinez Guerrero wrote:
Hello
I have a problem running initdb 8.0.1. I get this error message when I try to run this command in my system:
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-bash-2.05b$ /local/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the
same directory as
"/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Check your installation.
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strace shows this: ------------------------------------------------------------------- ...... ...... getcwd("/", 1024) = 10 chdir("/local/opt/postgresql/bin") = 0 lstat64("initdb", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=82, ...}) = 0 readlink("initdb", "/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]", 1024) = 82 chdir("/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin") = 0 lstat64("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=47506, ...}) = 0 getcwd("/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin", 1024) = 73 chdir("/") = 0 write(2, "The program \"postgres\" is needed"..., 209The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the same directory as "/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Check your installation. ) = 209 exit_group(1) = ? -------------------------------------------------------------------
Some additional information: ---------------------------- We are running a system for administration of third party software on UNIX computers (store). With this system we can compile in a master server versions for different platforms and different versions of the software for a platform, distribution happens automatic.
This system is well tested and works without a problem. We have been running the last 8-9 version of postgres in this system without a problem.
What the system does is to create a symblink to the version for your machine (among other things).
For example:
If we install the binaries for postgres under /local/opt/postgresql/bin,
initdb in this directory will be a symblink to
"/local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] and
/local/opt/postgresql/bin/postgres will we a symblink to /local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
if we are in a linux machine.
If we run the same version in a solaris machine: /local/opt/postgresql/bin/initdb --> /local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and
/local/opt/postgresql/bin/postgres --> /local/store/bbking/.postgresql/ver-8.0.1/opt/postgresql/bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solution to the problem?: -------------------------
I solution to this problem will be to look for postgres under the same
directory of initdb (/local/opt/postgresql/bin in our example) and not
under the directory of the initdb symblink target.
Any comment to this?
Thanks for your time.
What a very strange arrangement. Why not symlink the install dirs and leave the executable names alone? Mangling the names of the executables is surely a recipe for a hole in the foot - that you've got away with it up to now seems more a matter of luck than good management ;-)
cheers
andrew
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