> However, I would like to be logged in as myself and be able to run it
> directly. So, I removed the installation and reinstalled it
> and now I get a
> weird error in initdb:
>
> bash-2.02$ initdb --username=jskakkebaek
> : not found
> : not found
> : not found
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb: 74: Syntax error: expecting "in"
>
> The error apparently concerns line 74:
>
> case "$1" in
>
>
> I've tried for quite a while to understand the problem but
> have failed.
Please check the style of line ends - LF vs. CR+LF. On drives mounted with
-b you should have only LF, on drivers without -b (it's standard) there
should be CR+LF.
To delete the CR character you can use this command: "tr -d "\r" < initdb
>initdb.new; mv initdb.new initdb".
Dan