Re: Updated Cygwin Package: postgresql-7.4.2-1

David,

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 10:57:25PM -0400, David P. Lurie wrote:
> I was able to get both cygserver and postmaster to install as services
> under XP Pro, but only cygserver will successfully run as a service.
>
> postmaster fails to run as a service, either from the command line or
> the control panel services applet. C:\cygwin\bin is in the system
> path.
>
> [snip]
>
> postmaster : PID 3388 : starting service `r' failed: redirect_fd: open
> (1, /var/log/postmaster.log): 13, Permission denied.

Does the following from the README help?

3. Cygwin PostgreSQL can fail to start or not function properly if
certain files and directories have incorrect permissions. The
following usually solves these kinds of problems:

$ chmod a+rwx /tmp
$ chmod a+rx /usr/bin /usr/bin/*
$ chmod a+rw /var/log # could adversely affect other daemons

In particular, note the third chmod above.

Jason

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