From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: Hugh Esco <hesco@greens.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Problems invoking psql. Help please.
Date: 20 Nov 2002 12:49:27 +0000
Message-ID: <1037796567.29676.107.camel@linda> (raw)
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On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 06:30, Hugh Esco wrote:
> I did this tonight
>
> dpkg --purge postgresql
> apt-get install postgresql
>
> and am now still getting the following:
>
> >biko:/usr/bin# psql -U postgres
> >No database specified
> >biko:/usr/bin# psql -U postgres template1
> >Could not execv /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql
There is something wrong with permissions here.
You ought to be able, as _any_ user, to run /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql
Can you? It seems clear that pg_wrapper can't.
If not, why not?
I assume the file must exist, since you have just reinstalled the
package. Is the file itself executable by all users? (Use "ls -l" to
check this.)
Has someone made an intermediate directory unsearchable? Every
directory in its path should have search (i.e. execute) permission for
all users. Check /usr, /usr/lib, /usr/lib/postgresql, and so on.
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Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight, UK
http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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