Re: Troubles with installation of cygrunsrv - Mailing list pgsql-cygwin

you're right, It's xp professional

I really don't know which the diferences are for cygwin under xp home & xp professional.
But it seems that you have just created a user in cygwin, just like in any other unix. You should be able to edit /etc/passwd and erase the last line.

You should try to find out the your user name (id -un), and then stopping postmaster service (net stop postmaster), removing it (cygrunsrv -remove postmaster), changing the ownership of postgresql directory (chown -R <your_user_name> /var/postgres).
Then reboot your system, and after that, reinstall the postmaster service (using the <your_user_name> this time).

I guess it should work this way.


On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:16, Fabio Patocchi wrote:

Ciao Franco,

 

Thanx for your hints!

Probably you have installed winxp professional!

In the meantime I read that the xp-home doesn’t have user right management so I’m not able to initialize postgresql as postgres user.

Unfortunately I’ve already created the postgres user account with “mkpasswd –l –u postgress >>/etc/passwd”, so I cannot access the “usr/share/postgesql/data” directory anymore. Do you know how I could remove the postgres user account?

 

Grazie Fabio

 

 

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Von: Franco Bruno Borghesi [mailto:franco@akyasociados.com.ar]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. November 2003 22:56
An: fabio@patocchi.ch
Cc: pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org
Betreff: Re: [CYGWIN] Troubles with installation of cygrunsrv

 

have you run initdb -D /var/pgsql/data?

I'm using ipc-daemon2 and it works just fine (on winxp too), so it's not the problem.

There is no utility (as far as I know) to remove services from the scm on windows (I mean included with windows).
But you can remove ipc-daemon2 with
$ipc-daemon2 --remove-service
and postmaster with
$cygrunsrv --remove postmaster
Remember to reboot before you try to reinstall any of these services.

I would try stopping and starting ipc-daemon2 from the scm, and if it works ok, then I would try to start postgres.
If you have problems starting ipc-daemon2 you should check the event viewer (i guess) to find out what happened.
If you have problems starting postgresql, try
$/usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/pgsql/data
from the console to see any error messages.

Hope it helps.


On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 05:42, Fabio Patocchi wrote:

Hi

 

I tried to install the postmaster on XP Home Edition but it doesn’t work. The service starts and stops right after.

 

I loaded it that way: cygrunsrv --install postmaster --path /usr/bin/postmaster --args "-D /var/psql/data -i" --dep ipc-daemon2 --termsig INT –shutdown

 

Other question...I couldn’t find the “ipc-daemon” service so I loaded “ipc-daemon2”. Is that the problem? What is the difference between both of them?

How can I delete a service in the service list on XP?

 

Thanx for your help!

 

Fabio Patocchi