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Re: Failed: Installing Postgresql under Cygwin on win98se
- From: "Shelby Cain" <vhorit at email dot msn dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 18:34:24 -0600
- Subject: Re: Failed: Installing Postgresql under Cygwin on win98se
- Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
- References: <3C8677A9.1090302@htw-dresden.de>
"Tom Lauren" <s2399@htw-dresden.de> wrote in message
3C8677A9.1090302@htw-dresden.de">news:3C8677A9.1090302@htw-dresden.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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