On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 20:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You seem to have a very bizarre setup there --- there is no such thing > > as "readpgenv" in the standard Postgres distribution, and > > /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/ isn't the standard place to put the executable > > files either. Perhaps the above is normal for the Debian package of > > Postgres, but I'm afraid you'll have to ask the Debian packager for > > help. Nobody using other platforms is likely to be able to help... > I have Debian and Postgres installed from .deb package. Postgres is > installed in /usr/lib/postgresql by default and it contains readpgenv. > Psql stops working as described, when I remove executable attribute > from readpgenv. readpgenv is a bash script and has only 3 lines: > #!/bin/bash > . /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env > env > > postgresql.env file is an export of PGDATA/PGLIB/PGACCES_HOME variables
Yes. The reaon for its existence is that Debian policy prohibits reliance on environmental variables, so I jump through this hoop to read them from a predictable location (if they are not already set). Permissions on /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/readpgenv should be 755. How did they get unset? -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== "A Song for the sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High." Psalms 92:1 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
