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From: "Shelby Cain" <vhorit AT email DOT msn DOT com>
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
Subject: Re: Failed: Installing Postgresql under Cygwin on win98se
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 18:34:24 -0600
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"Tom Lauren" <s2399 AT htw-dresden DOT de> wrote in message
news:3C8677A9 DOT 1090302 AT htw-dresden DOT de..
> So, this is what initdb offered me:
> ______________________________
> $ initdb -D /usr/share/postgresql/data/
> basename: not found
> grep: not found
> grep: not found
> sed: not found
> The program 'postgres' is needed by  but was not found in
> the directory '/usr/bin'.  Check your installation.
> ______________________________
>

Is /usr/bin in your current path?  Did you select the sh-utils/grep/sed/et
al. packages when you installed cygwin?  From a cursory inspection of the
initdb script it looks like it needs postgres.exe in the same directory as
the script or in /usr/bin.

Regards,

Shelby Cain





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