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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason Tishler Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 10:46 AM To: Seth Rubin Cc: Pgsql-Cygwin Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] Updated Cygwin Package: postgresql-7.3.4-1 Seth, On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:38:25PM -0400, Seth Rubin wrote: > postgresql-7.3.4-1 did not work immediately after I upgraded on my XP > Home system, but it's OK now. It was fairly simple -- Here's > basically what happened: > > 1) upgraded my cygwin, including postgresql, from > ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ > 2) did 'net start postmaster' (I have postgres set up as NT service) > It failed. Found this in /var/log/postmaster.log: > > LOG: FindExec: invalid binary "/usr/bin/postgres" > FATAL: /usr/bin/postmaster: could not locate executable, bailing > out... > > 3) Looked at postgres.exe. > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/postgre* > -rwxr-x---+ 1 Owner Users 1985024 Aug 1 16:02 > /usr/bin/postgres.exe The permissions of postgres.exe is correct in the tarball: $ tar -tvjf postgresql-7.3.4-1.tar.bz2 usr/bin/postgres.exe -rwxr-xr-x jt/Domain Users 1985024 2003-08-01 16:02:43 usr/bin/postgres.exe AFAICT, the above problem is due to a bug in Cygwin's setup.exe. Please report the problem to the Cygwin list. Thanks, Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
