Subject: Re: Problems invoking psql. Help please.
From: Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
To: Hugh Esco <hesco@greens.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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Date: 20 Nov 2002 12:49:27 +0000
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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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