Re: Invalid Current Euid 500

Ah that was the problem. I recently had a hard drive crash and had to
reinstall everything .. oddly though I didn't have any user accounts
(WinME). I added a new user account and everything works now. Thanks for
your help.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henshall, Stuart - WCP" <SHenshall(at)westcountrypublications(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "'Tom Rons'" <tom(dot)rons(at)pandora(dot)be>; <pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 12:49 PM
Subject: RE: [CYGWIN] Invalid Current Euid 500

> 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(dot)rons(at)pandora(dot)be]
> > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 11:51 AM
> > To: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)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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