Are you running it as the same user who setup cygwin? It looks like your
user id code isn't recognised for some reason (I think). Maybe try as a
different user?
- Stuart
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Rons [SMTP:tom.rons@pandora.be]
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 11:51 AM
> To: pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org
> Subject: [CYGWIN] Invalid Current Euid 500
>
> Hello,
>
> I installed PostgreSQL version 7.1.2 through the cygwin setup, however it
> won't start. Here's what it spits out:
>
> $ initdb
> The program
> '/usr/bin/postgres'
> needed by initdb does not belong to PostgreSQL version 7.1.2, or
> there may be a configuration problem.
>
> This was the error message issued by that program:
> /usr/bin/postgres: invalid current euid 500
>
> Any ideas on how I can fix this? I'm not planning on running an SQL
> server
> on a win32 OS, I just need to test a program (which requires PostgreSQL),
> and I had some trouble finding someone who could host a testdb :)
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
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