From: | "Henshall, Stuart - WCP" <SHenshall(at)westcountrypublications(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | 'Ben' <belhanan(at)netvision(dot)net(dot)il>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: chown 'postgres': invalid user (win2000 install) |
Date: | 2002-06-14 07:27:25 |
Message-ID: | E2870D8CE1CCD311BAF50008C71EDE8E01F748EB@MAIL_EXCHANGE |
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At a guess I'd say cygwin doesn't know about the user.
mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd
should recreate the passwd file including all local users.
pgsql-cygwin is probably the best list to send further problems of this type
to.
hth,
- Stuart
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben [mailto:belhanan(at)netvision(dot)net(dot)il]
>
> Hi all
>
> Am trying to install Postgres on a win2000 machine. Am new
> to postgres, unix.
>
> I am following the instractions at
> :http://www.ejip.net/faq/postgresql-7.1.3.README for a NT services
> installation. (cygwin is already installed ofcourse).
>
> followed all the steps, but at step 6
> 6.
> Change ownership of the PostgreSQL data directory: # chown postgres
> /usr/share/postgresql/data
>
> I'm getting the following error :
> chown 'postgres': invalid user
>
> Any help ?????
>
> thanks
>
> Ben
>
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