Re: Running postmaster as native service without

Very helpful Stuart, thank you very much.

At 14:20 18/02/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>If you are running a flavour of NT you can run it as a service using
>cygrunsrv (and I definitly would advise against 9x for a server
>anyway). You must already have the cygipc installed as a service, then
>you could do something like this (not tested):
>cygrunsrv --install postmaster \
> --path /bin/postmaster \
> --args "-D /usr/data -i -o '-e -o /var/log/postgres.log'" \
> --dep ipc-daemon --termsig INT \
> --user <username>
>Cheers,
>- Stuart
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Finch, FosterFinch Ltd [mailto:tim(at)fosterfinch(dot)co(dot)uk]
> > Sent: 17 February 2002 23:28
> > To: Jason Tishler
> > Cc: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] Compiling 7.1.3 pgsql under cygwin 1.3 on W2000
> >
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > Thanks! I feel a bit of a duffer as I discovered this very
> > option about 10
> > mins after posting my message. I have indeed used the
> > prebuilt one. However
> > I have only got as far as trying to start postmaster once,
> > which it did OK,
> > but then I thought I could exit Cygwin to allow postmaster to run in
> > background and caused myself no end of grief -- is it true
> > that cygwin must
> > remain loaded whilst pgsql runs? Anyway to 'hide' the cygwin
> > window (i.e.
> > not even have it minimised, or sent to the tray for example?)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Tim.
> >
> > At 21:19 16/02/2002 -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > >Tim,
> > >
> > >On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:51:30AM +0000, Tim Finch,
> > FosterFinch Ltd wrote:
> > > > This is my first attempt at using cygwin so that I can
> > try and compile
> > > > pgsql for Windows 2000.
> > > >
> > > > [snip]
> > >
> > >Why don't you just use the pre-built binary that it installable by
> > >Cygwin's setup.exe?
> > >
> > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002/msg00048.html
> > >
> > >Jason
> >
> >
> >
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