Re: Problem starting postmaster on Win XP Home

Roger,

Please keep your replies on-list.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 01:54:20PM +0100, Roger @ LetsGetSet wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Tishler" <jason(at)tishler(dot)net>
> To: "Roger Ackroyd" <postgresql(at)ackroyd(dot)freeserve(dot)co(dot)uk>
> Cc: <pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 1:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] Problem starting postmaster on Win XP Home
>
> > > Any idea what I am doing wrong please?
> >
> > Is the postmaster running under the same account as the one that ran
> > initdb? What are the permissions of /usr/share/postgresql/data and
> > the files contained in it:
>
> Did everything from step 1 (in NT services section) to step 7. (net
> start ipc-daemon) in Owner account then switched to postgres account
> for initdb, then switched back to Owner to start the postmaster
> following is from Owner account
> >
> > $ ls -dl /usr/share/postgresql/data
> > [snip]
>
> > From postgres account it is same. the only permissions I changed
> > were the chmod for /tmp /usr/bin /usr/bin/*

I have seen similar reports by other XP Home users. Sorry, but I do not
have access to this platform. Hopefully, another XP Home user will help
you out. Otherwise, you will have to debug this yourself.

Jason

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