Re: Solaris 10 problem

This is exactly what i am doing.

Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
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# su - postgres
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
-bash-3.00$ id
uid=49500(postgres) gid=65434(postgres)
-bash-3.00$ initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
-bash: /usr/bin/initdb: Invalid argument

permissions on /usr/bin/initdb is
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 56276 Jul 12 19:26 /usr/bin/initdb

permissions on the /var/lib/pgsql/data
drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 512 Nov 27 15:43 data

10x 4 the help
Doron

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Nasby [mailto:decibel(at)decibel(dot)org]
Sent: Tue 11/28/2006 1:06 AM
To: Doron Baranes
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Solaris 10 problem

On Nov 27, 2006, at 8:59 AM, Doron Baranes wrote:
> I installed postgres 814 on solaris 10 using the following packages
> SUNWpostgr-libs-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
> SUNWpostgr-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
> SUNWpostgr-server-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
> SUNWpostgr-server-data-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
> SUNWpostgr-contrib-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
> SUNWpostgr-devel-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
> SUNWpostgr-docs-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
> SUNWpostgr-jdbc-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
> SUNWpostgr-tcl-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
> SUNWpostgr-pl-8.1.4-x86.tar.gz
>
> and no error occured.
>
> when i try to run initdb i get Invalid Argument.

What's the *exact* error you got, and how *exactly* did you invoke
initdb?
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