Dan,
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:34:59PM +0100, Dan Holmsand wrote:
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:05:16AM +0100, Dan Holmsand wrote:
> >>I get a similar error:
> >>
> >>IpcSemaphoreInitialize: semctl(id=2, 0, SETVAL, 0) failed: Invalid argument
> >
> >The above is noted in the README:
> >
> > 2. It is recommended to delete all cygipc temporary files
> > (/tmp/cygipc* and /tmp/MultiFile*) before starting postmaster
> > under a different user account. Otherwise, postmaster will fail
> > to start due to IPC errors.
>
> I know. However, this doesn't necessarily help if ipc-daemon is run by
> one account (say, "system" or "administrator") and postmaster by
> another (say, "postgres").
IMO, the above is not applicable. I routinely run ipc-daemon under
system (as a service) or myself (i.e., jt) and postmaster under
postgres. The issue in my README pertains to starting postmaster under
different user accounts.
In my experience, it is the /tmp/cygipc_* files that cause the problem
not the /tmp/MultiFile* files:
$ ls -l /tmp/cygipc_*
-rw------- 1 jt None 1441792 Dec 10 09:56 /tmp/cygipc_0
This is to be expected due to the write-only by owner permissions above.
> In my experience at least, postgres must have read AND write rights to
> the /tmp/MultiFile* files, otherwise you get the above error on
> startup.
On the other hand, I can switch back and forth between running ipc-daemon
as system and any other user because ipc-daemon creates /tmp/MultiFile*
with write by everyone permissions:
$ ls -l /tmp/MultiFile*
-rw-rw-rw- 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 3916520 Dec 10 09:56 /tmp/MultiFileMsg
-rw-rw-rw- 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 22032 Dec 10 09:56 /tmp/MultiFileSem
-rw-rw-rw- 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM 202768 Dec 10 09:56 /tmp/MultiFileShm
BTW, are you running ipc-daemon with --tight-security? Maybe this
explains the difference between what we are observing?
Jason
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