Thread: initdb 'no such file or directory' error

I commented this line out in initdb:

# cp /dev/null "$PGDATA"/postgresql.conf               || exit_nicely

and in its stead used:

touch "$PGDATA"/postgresql.conf               || exit_nicely

and this worked. However, things went wrong afterwards when trying to start the postmaster with my new install of
Cygwin1.5.18-1, so I re-installed 1.5.17-1, and things have been fine again. 

Erik

Ian Oxley wrote:

> Hi
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> I am having trouble running initdb on Cygwin/Windows XP Pro: the error I am
> getting is as follows:
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> $ initdb -D /home/pgdata
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> The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user
> "postgres".
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> This user must also own the server process.
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> The database cluster will be initialized with locale C.
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> creating directory /home/pgdata... ok
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> creating directory /home/pgdata/base... ok
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> creating directory /home/pgdata/global... ok
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> creating directory /home/pgdata/pg_xlog... ok
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> creating directory /home/pgdata/pg_clog... ok
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> cp: cannot stat '/dev/null.exe': no such file or directory
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> Having searched the lists I cannot seem to find anything relating to this
> last line: cp: cannot stat '/dev/null.exe': no such file or directory
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> Any help that anyone can provide would be much appreciated.
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> Thanks
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> Ian
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