Re: BUG #4785: Installation fails

Noone's answered this. I'd really like to install Postgres on my work station.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Page [mailto:dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org]
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 5:00 AM
To: Krimstock, Roger I (Roger)
Cc: Pg Bugs; Magnus Hagander
Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #4785: Installation fails

Magnus? Ping?

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Krimstock, Roger I (Roger)
> <rik(at)avaya(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> Dave,
>> Should the installer be the user "postgres"?  I've installed both as
>> "rik" (global domain) and "postgres" (local domain).  Each time
>> installation fails to write the "conf" file in /data.  See below for
>> answers to your questions.
>
> No - the postgres user is created by the installer so you can't use it
> to run the installer on the first installation. It also doesn't have
> any administrative permissions which are required.
>
>> - Is your computer on a domain?
>> Yes
>> - Is your user account a domain or local account?
>> Domain account
>> - Are you a local administrator, domain administrator or member of
>> the power users group (or anything similar?) Local administrator and
>> I added myself to power users.
>> - Do you have permissions to write to each directory in the path
>> C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4\data ?
>> Yes
>> - Is this an NTFS filesystem?
>> Yes
>
> So you have permission to write to those directories, but cacls fails
> if you try to change the permissions on them. Weird.
>
> Magnus; any ideas on what could cause this? I must admit, my Windows
> management-fu is somewhat rusty these days.
>
>
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> Dave Page
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>

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