Re: Problems invoking psql. Help please.

From: Hugh Esco <hesco(at)greens(dot)org>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Problems invoking psql. Help please.
Date: 2002-11-20 14:23:40
Message-ID: 5.1.0.14.0.20021120092138.0431a7c0@petra.cagreens.org
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Everything in the path is executable for others.
That is true for:
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin
and for:
/usr/bin
where psql is located.

-- Hugh

At 12:49 PM 11/20/02 +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>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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