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I'm using FreeBSD 8.0 and I've setup a jail, pgsql, to act as a database server. After installing, I've tried to run initdb but get the following error:

$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/home/pgsql
cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
fgets failure: No such file or directory
The program "postgres" is needed by initdb but was not found in the
same directory as "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb".
Check your installation.

yet dev/null exists:

root # ls /dev
null

and postgres is in the same directory:

root # find / -name postgres -print
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres

Any ideas?

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so /dev/null exists, or you have devfs mounted? If you just made a symlink or something, that doesn't work.

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  • I must have forgotten to remount after a restart.
    – gvkv
    Jul 10, 2010 at 8:19

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