Received: from localhost (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 654C34758FE for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:08:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (unknown [192.204.191.242]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B99474E61 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:08:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAKF3rhR001348; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:03:53 -0500 (EST) To: Oliver Elphick Cc: Hugh Esco , pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Problems invoking psql. Help please. In-reply-to: <1037803514.24840.20.camel@linda> References: <29178.1037776397@sss.pgh.pa.us> <5.1.0.14.0.20021120015333.04220570@petra.cagreens.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20021120015333.04220570@petra.cagreens.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20021120075927.042606b0@petra.cagreens.org> <1037803514.24840.20.camel@linda> Comments: In-reply-to Oliver Elphick message dated "20 Nov 2002 14:45:14 +0000" Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:03:53 -0500 Message-ID: <1347.1037804633@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 X-Archive-Number: 200211/312 X-Sequence-Number: 10454 Oliver Elphick writes: > execv() is a system call to run another executable in place of the > current process. If the other executable is not present, or does not > have permissions, you will not be able to run it. Find out why. Aside from access problems for the executable itself, it could be that there's a shared-library access problem. Perhaps ldconfig needs to be told where libpq.so is? regards, tom lane