Re: Mac OSX Installation

[Bob McConnell <rmcconne(at)lightlink(dot)com>]

Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have installed Postgresql from the William Kyngesbury distribution 
> (http://www.kyngchaos.com/wiki/software:postgres)
>
> I do not get any errors starting the server, but it fails on createdb: 
> "No such file or directory".
>
> I note that the initdb did not create a postgres.conf file in 
> /usr/local/pgsql/data
>
> Richard

Does the user you ran initdb under have write and execute permissions in 
the data directory? That is the most common cause of this problem in a 
Unix style environment.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP