Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster won't run as service on Cygwin

Update 2: OK, I've got it narrowed down even further. Don't laugh ! It's the name of the service "postmaster". This line creates a service that won't start. $ cygrunsrv --install postmaster --path /usr/bin/postmaster --args "-D /cygdrive/i/db_data/pgsql_data -i" --dep ipc-daemon2 --termsig INT

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster won't run as service on Cygwin

Update: If I let postgresql put it's data where Cygwin proposes /usr/share/postgresl/data then the service starts as expected. Obviously it's either some hardcoded path in the binaries or I have an permission issue with Windows 2000. I'd bet on the permissions. But if the permissions aren't O

[GENERAL] Postmaster won't run as service on Cygwin

Hi, I installed an postmaster for trainig and developement on my home box. It should run as win 2000 service on cygwin. Cygwin sits in I:\cygwin Data is I:\db_data\psql_data Data folder belongs to the userpostgres.benutzer I (postgres) can start the postmaster on a command line. I can log

[GENERAL] postmaster won't run

bash$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data DEBUG: Data Base System is starting up at Thu Jan 11 14:11:04 2001 FATAL 2: Read("/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_control") failed: 2 FATAL 2: Read("/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_control") failed: 2 Startup failed - abort