I'm trying to get Postgres working under Cygwin. The good news is, it mostly is. The bad news is, I can't shut it down with pg_ctl.
I loaded the full Cygwin installation on my Win2K Pro machine, and later on my XP Pro box. Both behave the same way. When I run pg_ctl stop, it motors for the duration of the wait period and then says the postmaster does not shut down. Upon further review ...... It looks like pg_ctl looks through the process list for the Postgres process and then tries to kill it. You can specify the shutdown as smart (which translates to kill -TERM), fast (kill -INT) or immediate (kill -QUIT). When the script hits the kill, I get Usage info on the screen!! So, the interpreter is not seeing this as a valid command line string for kill. I have echoed the command being generated out and it looks fine. I can take that same command and execute it: it shuts Postgres down. Why would the interpreter rejecting the command line for kill when it appears to be well formed? Any help would be greatly appreciated. __________________________________________________________________ John Pagakis Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" -- Josef Stalin This signature generated by ... and I Quote!!(tm) Copyright (c) 1999 SpaZmodic Frog Software, Inc. www.spazmodicfrog.com -- 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/