Re: Problems invoking psql. Help please.

That is indeed true. Also I see you do everything as root, try creating a 
new user especially for postgres databases. create a directory with root in 
/usr/loca/pgsql/ named data, or any other directory that is in $PGDATA. 
chown the directory to the postgres user, log in as the postgres user and 
try to initdb, postmaster (-i!) and connect... I think the problem lies 
here somewhere...

Michiel

At 02:13 20-11-2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Hugh Esco <hesco@greens.org> writes:
> >> biko:/usr/bin# ls -al | grep psql
> >> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 Oct 10 16:24 psql -> pg_wrapper
>
> > This seems to say that Other users, like postgres, should be able to
> > execute it.  I'm confused, here.
>
>The permissions attached to a symbolic link are meaningless, in all Unix
>variants I've dealt with.  You need to look at the permissions of the
>linked-to object (here, pg_wrapper) instead...
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>
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