"Tom Lauren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].. > 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
