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Date:	Wed, 21 May 2003 16:46:10 -0400
From:	Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject:	Re: Problems when running initdb with 7.3.2-2
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Matthew,

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:07:55AM -0700, Matthew Rudolph wrote:
> I get the following when running intitdb:
> initializing pg_shadow... LOG:  FindExec:  invalid binary
> "/usr/bin/postgres"
> FATAL: /usr/bin/postgres: could not locate executable, bailing out

For some reason, Cygwin's setup.exe does not preserve the permissions
under XP for my PostgreSQL tarball.  Something like the following should
help:

    $ chmod a+x /usr/bin /usr/bin/*

Jason

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