| From: | pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com |
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| To: | Ed(dot)Redman(at)dal(dot)ca |
| Cc: | pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: installation problems |
| Date: | 2003-04-25 19:32:56 |
| Message-ID: | 1595.68.162.220.216.1051299176.squirrel@mail.mohawksoft.com |
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> I installed PGSqlwinna1 executable on a windows 2000 machine.
> Everything works fine as the txt file Postgres7.3.1 txt doc found in
> the Cygwin directory. In the fourth step
>
> the following command will not run
>
> cygrunsrv --install postmaster --path /usr/bin/postmaster --args "-D
> /usr/share/postgresql/data -i"
> --dep ipc-daemon --termsig INT --user postgres --shutdown
>
> error message is path doesnot point to a valid executable
>
> I have tried 1. changing to /bin/postmaster instead but get the same
> results. I would really appreciate some help. I would like to run
> postgresql on this windows machine.
Funny, but cygwin's "symlink" mechanism is pretty poor. Rather than using a
symlink, copy postgres.exe to postmaster.exe and see if that works.
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