| From: | Reini Urban <rurban(at)x-ray(dot)at> |
|---|---|
| To: | Chida Hisao <chida(dot)DigitalScape(at)canon(dot)co(dot)jp> |
| Cc: | pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: cannot find name for user ID |
| Date: | 2004-10-29 19:01:48 |
| Message-ID: | 4182939C.3060907@x-ray.at |
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Chida Hisao schrieb:
> I have newly installed cygwin on Win200 PC, but the it always start
> with:
>
> "id: cannot find name for user ID 36987"
man mkpasswd
> and I fail to initialize PostgresSQL with this message:
>
> "The program
> '/usr/bin/postgres'
> needed by initdb does not belong to PostgreSQL version 7.3.4 or
> there may be a configuration problem.
>
> This was the error message issued by that program:
> /usr/bin/postgres: invalid current euid 36987"
>
> I have uninstalled and reinstalled cygwin but the problem remains
> unsolved.
>
> Please advice m(__)m
how about reading the cygwin readme?
less /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgres*.README
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Reini Urban
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